We should lament that our rules are imperfect and unjust, and then seek to reform them in a spirit of good-will by speaking the Truth, by loving one another—even our enemy—as our neighbor equal in worth and dignity.
Standards of politeness and expectations of well-behaving individuals serve ultimately to liberate and provide him or her with the space (and luxury) for moral introspection and growth.
I’m what they call a “legacy,” but not the kind that gives me a leg up in university admissions.
It’s a powerful thing to have a tangible reminder of why you believe what you believe, why you fight for what you fight for, that can serve as a source of hope in today’s overwhelmingly disenchanting political world.
On the 25th of August, one American “[came] to the end of a long journey” to, as he put it, “[make] a small place for [himself] in the story of America and the history of [his] times.”
Much as the election of President Donald Trump has ushered in a period of uncertainty and change to domestic policy and American society, so too has it muddled a clear sense of America's foreign policy.
The view of the Supreme Court building from the top of the U.S. Capitol dome in June 2018
