After baseball, America’s favorite pastime may be the process of reinventing itself, continuously redefining its identity and searching for its soul.
[America] is really where the experiment is unfolding. This is really where the races confront one another, where the classes, where the genders, where even the sexual orientations confront one another. This is the real laboratory of democracy.
We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don’t understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.
