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By Emmanuel Codden. Sepia-toned image of a construction worker using equipment on a city street (Jackhammering). Pexels. Free to use.
How can we remain the same country and culture when we can’t agree on much of anything? Not merely on policy preferences or the usual disputes of democratic life, but on the most fundamental things — the meaning of words, the interpretation of laws, the basic facts of what is happening around us. The foundation has not merely cracked; in many quarters, it is being jackhammered from below.