Grand Juries vs. Grand Ballrooms

Will the ideas of freedom and equality survive the Trump Era?

Illustration by Riley Levine

Let’s take some time today to talk about ideas and institutions.

All men are created equal is an idea. Government of the people, by the people, and for the people, is an idea.

Great replacement theory is an idea. So is the unitary executive.

We are living in a moment when great ideas clash. On one side are notions of democracy, …