We're All Better Off...when We're All Better

The Boomers Will Eventually Have To Accept That It Is Not Possible To Stay Young Forever Or To Stop Aging. But It Is Possible By Committing To Show Up For Each Others In Community After Community, To Earn A Measure Of Immortality.

In The End No Segregationist Scheme Has Withstood The Force Of A Simple Idea: Equality Under Law.

We All Want Merit To Mean Something, And We All May Be Tempted To Reduce That Meaning To Something Measurable And Concrete Like An Sat Score. The Reality, Though, Is That Who Deserves Entry Into An Institution Depends On What The Institution Exists To Do.

Conservatives Forget That Citizenship Is More Than A Thing To Withhold From Immigrants. Progressives Forget It's More Than A Set Of Rights.

Much Of Our National Debate Proceeds As If China And America Were Locked In A Zero-sum Game In Which One's Loss Is Precisely The Other's Gain.