The American experiment continues. We keep on trying. Yet turmoil, division, distrust, confusion and misinformation batter us daily. Demagogues leverage social cleavage and manipulate nativistic fears. We feel increasingly undone. Our tendency is to somehow believe this is a new…
A constitutional republic, if you can keep it
Too often, when I hear or read political pundits, both conservative and liberal, refer to the United States as a “democracy,” I want to scream, “We are a constitutional republic, not a democracy!” and a few choice other words directed…