Our conclusion, in fact anyone’s conclusion who is paying attention to the rise of patriarchal autocrats around the globe and the surge of right-wing attacks on the very concept of gender, is that things have only gotten worse.
Ancient democratic Athens and Rome, the nations we used as examples for our own democracy, ushered politician felons out of town and out of the country and didn’t let them come back.
This Memorial Day, this graduation season, our students are once again asking for an end to senseless bloodshed, and to hold their country accountable to ideals it has long promised but failed to provide.