It feels like there’s a common thread to the roiling trouble we’re seeing in this country and the world at large in 2020. Or maybe there are a lot of threads and they all knot together in one place, and if only we can untie it…

So forgive me if the threads of this post don’t immediately intersect, but I’ll try my best to tie them all together in the end.

A Viral Pandemic

The US, a country that values the individual, has never been asked to come toget...