Segregation. There was another one. America sees this now but it took a civil rights movement to betray their age. And 50 years ago the U.S. Supreme Court betrayed the age May 17, 1954, Brown vs. Board of Education came down and put the lie to the idea that separate can ever really be equal. Amen to that.

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will. Slavery was one of them and the people who best served that age were…

What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?

There's a truly great Irish poet. His name is Brendan Kennelly, and he has this epic poem called the Book of Judas, and there's a line in that poem that never …