As I write these words in early July, we’re suffering through a global pandemic, our economy has plunged into recession, and the killing of a Black man in Minneapolis has sparked fervent calls for cultural change after centuries of social injustice.
Is this the worst year since 1968, the year that Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated, the year of the Tet Offensive — a year of trauma and tribulation that still lingers large in our collective memory more than half a century later?
Maybe so.
It certainly feels that way given the social unrest amid the pitched battle with a global pandemic that is increasingly reminiscent of the Spanish flu of 1918.
If you think I’m overstating the impact of COVID-19 in comparing it to the Spanish flu, let’s settle up in 2021 or 2022. Hopes that the virus would die down over the summer appear to be fading as case counts rise and state and county governments scale back their plans to reopen local businesses.
These are dark times, indeed — suitably bearing comparisons to those previous years.
While it might be easy to pray for daylight and hope simply to survive, the real challenge lies in transforming the suffering of this moment into a brighter tomorrow entirely, to emerge stronger for what we’ve weathered together.
I hope we can.
I think we can.
Together.
This magazine takes its name from the last lines of Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address, which he gave on March 4, 1861. Lincoln, speaking just a month before the Civil War would break out, called for unity when he said, “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
Powerful words.
In the spirit of unity and bearing in mind the lofty promise of our United States, we have assembled here a diverse collection of essays to inspire reflection. Here you will find articles that speak to this moment in hope and with at least a little bit of optimism, as well as a few stories about those who are working to make our country a better, more inclusive place.
Our goal is to shine a light on those among us who have labored to make the American dream more achievable for everyone and to show how we can all work together toward common ends for the common good.
Consider this our appeal to the better angels of our collective nature, a call to all to come together in support of the freedoms we hold so dearly.
The future of our precious democracy depends upon it.
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