A Colony in a Nation

by Chris Hayes

This great land of ours, this exceptional beacon of liberty, was founded by men who, to borrow a phrase, refused to comply.

To be outnumbered and afraid in a land not your own, and to attempt to bring it under your control—this is the great recurring theme of the American project,

We are wired to identify threats, not to process statistics. And when it’s your job to grab attention, you learn to trigger those threat neurons over and over. We mash the keys until they’re worn out.