President Donald Trump, the nation's vandal-in-chief, has made an absolute mess of Washington over the past year. The botched renovation of the Reflecting Pool is merely his latest and least accomplishment in a long string of defiling and defacing the District of Columbia. But coupled with
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was
This coming Sunday, the Trump White House is holding "Rededicate 250," a massive religious event on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., designed to "give thanks for God's providence, reflect on our nation's story, and rededicate America as One Nation under God.
Last night I gave this talk to the Princeton Adult School about the connections between the civil rights movement of the 1960s and similar struggles in our own time, pulling together a few things I've written about in the past and packaging them for a general audience. I