Sublime

We need to remove private funding from what should be public campaigns for office. We will have to take seriously our own Constitution, which forbids oath-breaking insurrectionists from running for office.

to give America a new genesis: not 1776, when British colonies and slavery were well established, but 1619, the year a group of Africans were brought against their will to the British territories.

Out of that anger came a profound realization. It was the moment when the colonials realized that they were not English but Americans. A new sense of “nation” began to emerge from this war and from the Appalachians.

“The founders of the U.S.,” Taylor said, “by today’s standards, were ravenous hwite supremacists.

thanks to the people they left out (and a few good accomplices), progress has moved us closer to realizing the aspirational sentiment of their words, instead of being limited by their intentions. It is that—the ability and desire so many of us have to make America better than intended, to improve upon what those who came before us did, planned, or

The founding moment of a company, however, really does happen just once: only at the very start do you have the opportunity to set the rules that will align people toward the creation of value in the future.