Sublime

Does American history prove these truths, or does it belie them?

Nature takes one toll, malice another. History is the study of what remains, what’s left behind,

Nearly half of colonial New Englanders’ wealth would come from sugar grown by West Indian slaves.

the equivalent of 140,000 Library of Congress collections.1 Growth

Unreasonable distributions of wealth have always turned their fire on reason.

Can a political society really be governed by reflection and election, by reason and truth, rather than by accident and violence, by prejudice and deceit? Is there any arrangement of government—any constitution—by which it’s possible for a people to rule themselves, justly and fairly, and as equals, through the exercise of judgment and care? Or are

the new millennium it became apparent to anyone with eyes to

Good Judgment Project.

O’Connor’s “Good Country People,”