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All any of us can do is follow our own conscience and retain faith in our democracy

Charles Schulz writes to a 10-year-old boy

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Nov 09, 2024
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Charles M Schulz, creator of the 'Peanuts' comic strip, sitting in his studio in 1978. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)

In 1970, Charles Schulz, the beloved creator of the Peanuts comic strip, received a letter from a young fan named Joel Lipton. Ten-year-old Joel, along with his classmates, had been given a straightforward yet weighty assignmen…

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