AI-generated image credit: Grokby James A. BaconAfter publishing Bacon’s Rebellion for 25 years, this is the hardest column I’ve ever had to write. I urge Bacon’s Rebellion readers to subscribe to the publication. I founded Bacon’s Rebellion as a weekly newsletter in 2002 and quickly migrated to the blog format. With the exception of the perspicacious readers of Bacon’s Rebellion, of course, the vast majority of the citizenry has no sense of history. I’ve tried to create an oasis of reason and civility on Bacon’s Rebellion, and I’m grateful to the people who have engaged in that spirit.