Distinguished Writer in Residence Francine Prose on How Easily the Fabric of American Society Can Unravel
“Our profoundly serious problems – racism, income inequality, to name just two – will be hard to fix, but it turns out to be horrifyingly easy to worsen them,” writes Prose in The Guardian. “Americans need to rethink the idea – and the fear – of harming and being harmed by neighbors with differently colored skins and differently colored signs in their yards. Republicans and Democrats alike, it’s our civic duty – our moral duty – to resist the violence and the terrifying vision of our country, an image on which their Republicans are basing their hopes for re-election: a nation that needs an iron hand to protect us from one another.”
Post Date: 09-02-2020
Post Date: 09-02-2020