Civic Essays
What We Owe the Next Generation
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 […]
civic duty
Veterans
Veterans and the Civic Compact
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 […]
Civic Essays
YOU, Are Not Worthy of the Title, American
Keep spreading half truths. Not all Republicans are bad, just like not all Democrats are bad, just as not all police officers are bad, just as not all white people are bad, just as not […]