1977 | La Jolla, California
I have come to understand that we are a divided country, but lately it seems that we are certifiably schizophrenic.
I was deeply moved by Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton and the contingencies of nation-founding.
And then, going back into Ron Chernow’s biography Alexander Hamilton brightly illuminated for me the character of our country from its inception – it seems as if every thing we have done as a nation has been won or lost at the last minute by a single cast vote: war, rights, slavery, expansion, displacement, disenfranchisement.
How do we do that?