On Consensus, Education, and the Tools We Were Never Given
When a major political event breaks, the reaction is almost instantaneous.
Before details emerge, before legal authority is clarified, before consequences are understood, Americans are asked to choose a side. Strength or weakness. Justice or lawlessness. Courage or corruption. Within hours, the story hardens into two opposing camps, each convinced the other is either blind or dangerous.
The Fragility of Privilege
Rights are not a gift from government. They are a claim built into what it means to be human. You can suspend them by force, fail to honor them in law, or ignore them in practice. But you cannot erase their source without denying the person who bears them. That is the heart of the matter, and one of the oldest arguments in political thought.
