We who grew up in the West in the immediate post-World War II world assumed that rule of law, humanitarianism, human rights, international cooperation, and norms of honesty and
“I don’t remember on any past Fourth of July being so ashamed of an action my country had just taken,” says former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers about the “big,
Things in the US have taken a serious turn during the past week. On June 6, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ramped up its raids in Los Angeles, taking people
In the name of eradicating waste and fraud and “making America great again,” President Trump has found common cause with a highly organized 40 year project to create a “unitary
The past week has showered Americans with signals and symbols of the state of our nation and the imperatives now on the table.
The eleven weeks between Donald Trump’s
Book Review Essay
Books Cited
* Heather Cox Richardson, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, Viking, 2023.
* James Davison Hunter, Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America&
