It is important to remind ourselves of this complex inheritance of - TopicsExpress

It is important to remind ourselves of this complex inheritance of ours- especially at a time when we find it convenient to paint the past as a period of moral idealism, and the present as one of self interested expediency. Our founders were saints, so the mantra goes, and our current crop of politicians, we despairingly lament, are scoundrels. That was then; now is different. But this is a view that diminishes both our history and our present, and reduces our future options....