To date I have read (albeit at a slow pace) Paine’s Common Sense, Slack’s Liberty’s First Crisis, and I am in the middle of reading John Stuart Mill’s essay “On Liberty.” I would have taken none of those actions prior to this last election. These are dark days for the United States, yet they are pierced by shafts of light. A new spirit of citizen responsibility is waking in the land. Americans are turning off cable networks that lie to them to consume instead more and better news.1 Instead of theatrical street protests, concerned citizens have turned to productive political action: phone calls
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