EGO, RESENTMENT, AND OUR TROUBLES LBJ once told Bill Moyers, reflecting on racial resentment, “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” Note that historians agree […]

People trust. It’s both instinctual and learned. At the moment we are born, trust is not optional. Defenseless, we are pulled from the warm and safe confines of our mother’s womb and into a new world that immediately works to reassure us–swaddled, held, fed, soothed, made to feel safe. The new environment feels like the

Awaken to the Hope He Had In her January 18, 2026, Letters from an American, the brilliant Heather Cox Richardson (one of my role models) wrote that Dr. King said that he “felt blessed to live in an era when people had finally woken up and were working together for freedom and economic justice.” Woken

Americans, there is no “them” there’s only us. We need to work together. Compromise and cooperation: Two words with similar meanings but evoke very different feelings when considered together or separately. “Compromise” seems pleasant enough, but there’s always a lingering gut feeling that something was given up–like you didn’t get what you really wanted. It