The election has changed who will hold congressional power. Whether it changes how that power is exercised remains to be seen. A free people cannot govern itself once it surrenders independent judgment to the tribe. […]
There is a kind of conversation that has gone out of fashion in this country, and we are paying for its absence. It is the conversation older people used to have with younger people about […]
There is a kind of contract that gets signed in this country every year by hundreds of thousands of young people, and almost nobody who hasn’t signed it ever reads the fine print. The contract […]
Every four years this country has a nervous breakdown over the presidency. We argue, we fund-raise, we yell at our relatives, we vote, and then we spend the next four years either celebrating or grieving. […]
September 17th is Constitution Day in this country. Most people do not know that, which is itself a quiet indictment. We talk about the Constitution constantly. We invoke it in arguments. We accuse other people […]
Most of the leaders we hand power to in this country are picked the wrong way. We pick them by charisma. We pick them by name recognition. We pick them by who looks the part […]
There is a difference between consuming news and reading the news. Most Americans do the first. Hardly anyone does the second. Consuming news means letting whatever happens to surface in front of you, on a […]
There used to be a thing in this country called an argument. Two people, often disagreeing strongly, would sit in a room or stand in a parking lot or write back and forth in letters, […]
There is a strange habit that has taken over the way Americans talk about wrongdoing. The moment something terrible happens, the first instinct is not to ask what we should learn from it, but to […]
Originally published in The East Tennessean, East Tennessee State University’s student newspaper, March 26, 2017, following Dr. Bernice King’s lecture at ETSU during Civility Month. Reprinted on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 2026, because the […]
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