A nation cannot be unified by dividing a people against themselves. The danger begins when that contradiction becomes a political method.
A nation cannot be unified by dividing a people against themselves. The danger begins when that contradiction becomes a political method.
America is presently in a phase of contraction rather than confidence: heightened suspicion of difference, attempts to reassert a singular national story, and a political atmosphere animated less by vision than by grievance and enforcement. Cultural life has not escaped this. Language, migration, race, and belonging are being pulled back into blunt, exclusionary frames, while […]