Having severely impaired hearing, the podcasts and videos are useless to me. And when there is no transcript available, the content is inaccessible. This post makes the transcript available only through the app. I will not be loading the Substack App as my phone and computer are already cluttered enough. But I love reading your work and follow it religiously, often excerpting and quoting it to friends. Please stay print based.
Thank you for the salvation. I got the print version until I switched to paid and now all I get is the video. I emailed support and supposedly they are working on it.
I'm also hearing impaired and I agree. But i open two windows; this one and the one in my email that has the printed letter. A pain, I know, but that way I can follow along.
Click on the "Transcript" button on the right. You don't need special app. It's right there. Try it! It's great. You can follow along with Heather as she reads her letter.
Have you tried the apple AirPods hearing function? My “hearing aids”, over the counter at Costco, were the best ones available until November. I found them really difficult. They don’t deal well with ambient noise—restaurant visit were horrible, could not hear the person across from me. Driving the car was torture. SO—have been using the AirPods since November and I will NEVER go back. From a score of minus 100 for the hearing aids, to a score of PLUS 1,000. Just my opinion, but now concerts, visits to restaurants, driving the car are pretty much what hearing was before my hearing loss. Incredible improvement. Just incredible.
In realms where unchecked Power strides, The Few amass, the Many bide, They grasp the Scepter, Throne, and Pen, While Justice weeps in darkened Den,
Inequity, its chasm wide, Oppression's weight, the Poor abide, Demagogues, with fervent Art, Deceive the Mind. betray the Heart,
A third, misled, cast votes in vain, Against their needs, entwined in chain, Oh, when shall Light, expose the Blight, And free the Masses, from the Night?
Welcome back to the 18 hundreds ! That as you said are what Trump and his YES people want where are the brave Congress people and Senators who are willing to stand for what is right ?
I turned 75 in January. When I talk with younger people (and I try to do so as often as possible), I tell them how Abraham Lincoln helped establish land-grant colleges and universities. From 1968 to 1970, I attended the University of Georgia after graduating from a high school in New Jersey. (Talk about culture shock!). If they were from Georgia, my fellow students paid ZERO tuition fees. Being from out of state, I had to fork out a whole $300. Student debt at that time was used mainly by medical students, not for the rest of us. My books each quarter cost more than the tuition.
Ronald Reagan (a movie star of sorts, kind of like DT with his false reality show). became president after serving as California's governor. While he was just a governor, he managed to get away with ending the policy of no tuition for students who were residents of his state.
Unfortunately, after he became President, our Congress also thought it was a great idea, and here we are—college students loaded with incredible debt that makes it hard for them to pay their bills, buy a home, drive a decent vehicle without even more debt, or start having kids.
How do you get the transcript? I would love to share this with those who are not able to use the app. At this point we need as much good info disseminated as possible!
Abraham Lincoln was a true leader. Unfortunately business is taking over now. That really began when Ronald Reagan became president, and nearly every president, of both major parties since has been ruled by business. To say that the Democratic party is liberal is hogwash. None of them are real liberals. Watching the new president work his coup d'tat on our government without the other party of the former president doing any meaningful thing in opposition is shameful.
As is true of the professor’s letters from day to day, these lines bare repeating.
Of Abraham Lincoln’s luminous worldview:
“It was a system that had never been fully realized but that he still saw as 'the last, best hope of earth' to prove that people could govern themselves.”
I consistently read, Archive and value your emailed letters. Written transcripts are far easier to skim back through for essential sentences or ideas, than audio podcasts are, where it’s almost impossible unless you bookmark right as you hear it. PLEASE retain the written word.
Musk having free rein over cutting Social Security and Medicare, increasing the national debt by 3 trillion, and having giant tax cuts for the wealthy is abhorrent. Musk is a private citizen playing host to a group of hackers- not accountants or investigators trained to identify waste or fraud. That isn't their objective. That is only to cut social programs that Musk feels is a drain on America, the business.
Social Security is not an "entitlement". I worked and contributed for 40 years, able to look at the government website to know what I would be drawing at retirement. I contributed the maximum for over 20 of those years. The government should not be able to retroactively change the playing field.
Having severely impaired hearing, the podcasts and videos are useless to me. And when there is no transcript available, the content is inaccessible. This post makes the transcript available only through the app. I will not be loading the Substack App as my phone and computer are already cluttered enough. But I love reading your work and follow it religiously, often excerpting and quoting it to friends. Please stay print based.
The Letters ARE the transcripts.
Your salvation is a click away. Right next to the Share button is "transcript".
But you should sign up to get the written letter version like Steve says.
Thank you for the salvation. I got the print version until I switched to paid and now all I get is the video. I emailed support and supposedly they are working on it.
I'm also hearing impaired and I agree. But i open two windows; this one and the one in my email that has the printed letter. A pain, I know, but that way I can follow along.
Click on the "Transcript" button on the right. You don't need special app. It's right there. Try it! It's great. You can follow along with Heather as she reads her letter.
Have you tried the apple AirPods hearing function? My “hearing aids”, over the counter at Costco, were the best ones available until November. I found them really difficult. They don’t deal well with ambient noise—restaurant visit were horrible, could not hear the person across from me. Driving the car was torture. SO—have been using the AirPods since November and I will NEVER go back. From a score of minus 100 for the hearing aids, to a score of PLUS 1,000. Just my opinion, but now concerts, visits to restaurants, driving the car are pretty much what hearing was before my hearing loss. Incredible improvement. Just incredible.
How lonely the life of an historian.
Faithfully explaining history that handily gives outcomes of bad ideas.
Only to have to repeat them.
Abraham Lincoln is our greatest President. He would be ashamed of the orange menace and muskrat. We are all FBI agents now, fighting fascism and saving our sacred democracy: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/we-are-all-fbi-agents-now
In realms where unchecked Power strides, The Few amass, the Many bide, They grasp the Scepter, Throne, and Pen, While Justice weeps in darkened Den,
Inequity, its chasm wide, Oppression's weight, the Poor abide, Demagogues, with fervent Art, Deceive the Mind. betray the Heart,
A third, misled, cast votes in vain, Against their needs, entwined in chain, Oh, when shall Light, expose the Blight, And free the Masses, from the Night?
Thank you, Professor.
Welcome back to the 18 hundreds ! That as you said are what Trump and his YES people want where are the brave Congress people and Senators who are willing to stand for what is right ?
There are very, very, very few brave Congress people. They do not know the meaning of the word "brave."
I turned 75 in January. When I talk with younger people (and I try to do so as often as possible), I tell them how Abraham Lincoln helped establish land-grant colleges and universities. From 1968 to 1970, I attended the University of Georgia after graduating from a high school in New Jersey. (Talk about culture shock!). If they were from Georgia, my fellow students paid ZERO tuition fees. Being from out of state, I had to fork out a whole $300. Student debt at that time was used mainly by medical students, not for the rest of us. My books each quarter cost more than the tuition.
Ronald Reagan (a movie star of sorts, kind of like DT with his false reality show). became president after serving as California's governor. While he was just a governor, he managed to get away with ending the policy of no tuition for students who were residents of his state.
Unfortunately, after he became President, our Congress also thought it was a great idea, and here we are—college students loaded with incredible debt that makes it hard for them to pay their bills, buy a home, drive a decent vehicle without even more debt, or start having kids.
Can we have more comments on the podcast and less complaining about accessing them?
How do you get the transcript? I would love to share this with those who are not able to use the app. At this point we need as much good info disseminated as possible!
These audio recordings ARE simply HCR reading the written version from the previous evenings.
Sign up for her daily email as well.
Look at the share button. Transcript first right.
Abraham Lincoln was a true leader. Unfortunately business is taking over now. That really began when Ronald Reagan became president, and nearly every president, of both major parties since has been ruled by business. To say that the Democratic party is liberal is hogwash. None of them are real liberals. Watching the new president work his coup d'tat on our government without the other party of the former president doing any meaningful thing in opposition is shameful.
I prefer a transcript. Thank you
Yes, this also has the transcript, thankyou. In the middle of this email at the top just to the right of SHARE is the word TANSCRIPT.
As is true of the professor’s letters from day to day, these lines bare repeating.
Of Abraham Lincoln’s luminous worldview:
“It was a system that had never been fully realized but that he still saw as 'the last, best hope of earth' to prove that people could govern themselves.”
May this not be lost in the annals of time.
I consistently read, Archive and value your emailed letters. Written transcripts are far easier to skim back through for essential sentences or ideas, than audio podcasts are, where it’s almost impossible unless you bookmark right as you hear it. PLEASE retain the written word.
Musk having free rein over cutting Social Security and Medicare, increasing the national debt by 3 trillion, and having giant tax cuts for the wealthy is abhorrent. Musk is a private citizen playing host to a group of hackers- not accountants or investigators trained to identify waste or fraud. That isn't their objective. That is only to cut social programs that Musk feels is a drain on America, the business.
Social Security is not an "entitlement". I worked and contributed for 40 years, able to look at the government website to know what I would be drawing at retirement. I contributed the maximum for over 20 of those years. The government should not be able to retroactively change the playing field.
Where is Abraham Lincoln when we need him? Love your podcasts.
Lincoln's sublime prose expresses truths about human power that resonate now more than ever. "It is all the same old serpent."