Quote of the Day

“Blaming this dire circumstance on one person, one set of leaders, or one political party is tempting but too simple. Our response to today’s health crisis reveals a deep illness that has been festering within American society and our body politic. We have sacrificed our sense of common destiny to a hyper-individualism that rejects the concept of solidarity among human beings. Governments are supposed to assure that everyone enjoys at least a basic level of security. Ours has all but abandoned that responsibility.”—Stephen Kinzer, senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs at Brown University, on the self-revelations of the Coronavirus crisis.