Sublime

Nella legislazione antiterrorismo no, basta l’intenzione, e i due rischiano vent’anni di carcere. Non siamo lontani da Minority Report, il film che Spielberg ha tratto da un racconto di Philip K. Dick, in cui le persone vengono arrestate prima che commettano il reato che è previsto commetteranno.

Seemingly contradictory calls to lock up and to save Black people dueled in legislatures around the country but also in the minds of Americans. Black leaders joined with Republicans from Nixon to Reagan, and with Democrats from Johnson to Bill Clinton, in calling for and largely receiving more police officers, tougher and mandatory sentencing, and

to participate in the great decisions of government. There was, Lippmann brooded, no “intrinsic moral and intellectual virtue to majority rule.” Lippmann’s disenchantment with democracy anticipated the mood of today’s elites. From the top, the public, and the swings of public opinion, appeared irrational and uninformed. The human material out of