Questions of Civic Proportions: How does history help us find ourselves in the space between the past and the future?

My Fellow Citizens, Listen, the United States has come unstuck in time. You might recognize this line from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, but it matches the landscape of my mind today.  U.S. Senator Ted Cruz provoked this feeling of coming unstuck or unmoored. He represents me in the Senate,

Questions of Civic Proportions: What will happen if no one plays the game?

My Fellow Citizens, Athletes have a playbook with moves we all have to learn to execute. The question of who will play the game and who will not transcends the court. One of the most iconic images in sports comes from the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Tommie Smith and

Quotes to Think By: Timothy Snyder's Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Quotes to Think By: Timothy Snyder’sOn Tyranny Understanding the politics of the everyday and the choices we make Timothy Snyder’s small book has a big mission. Each chapter of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century [https://bookshop.org/a/5090/9780804190114]delivers advice for recognizing and