A reader asked why I preface the title of these essays with We the People. I replied in part that I mean it in context the Founders meant it when they inscribed the phrase into the Preamble. His query, though, prompted me think more deeply about who constitutes We the People. I now realize that it’s not easily definable. Although my definition is far more expansive than that of our Founders, it’s not unlimited. It’s munificent to say We the…
We’ve entered a new age. There are cynics who might shrug and say they’ve been there done that, explaining they’ve seen new ages come and go. Still, they might remember that…
Do you remember the Plymouth, Oldsmobile, or Mercury? How about the De Soto, Hudson, or Studebaker? Go back further to the REO Speed Wagon, not the rock group but the pickup…
While reading Thomas Edsall’s essay “Is This Liberalism’s Last Stand?” in the New York Times, I learned a new term: Precariat. When I saw that precariat wasn’t on the Merriam-Webster’s Online…
The idea of character has been on my mind of late. Character, of course, has multiple meanings, from a symbol to a person. It even can be descriptive as in “He’s…