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Monitor Daily Intro for June 26, 2017
Mark Sappenfield
Religious liberty. Terrorism. Same-sex marriage. Gun rights. All in one day.聽On Monday, the United States Supreme Court finished its term with cases that cut to the country鈥檚 deepest divides. The next term, which ends a year from now, will have far more blockbusters.
The question is, How will Americans handle it? The solidarity that kept America together through the severe strains of Vietnam and the toppling of Jim Crow was at least partly born of shared sacrifice and purpose, first in World War II, then the cold war.
Today, that solidarity is at a low ebb. Rebuilding it during the year ahead might call for sacrifice of a different sort.
聽鈥淸E]ven the best-designed legal institutions and practices may yield decisions which many believe to be mistaken,鈥� Columbia University professor Michele Moody-Adams tells聽. These are the inevitable 鈥渟trains of commitment鈥� to any democracy, she adds. The path forward is in finding a deeper foundation for our sense of unity. 鈥淐ontemporary life erects many barriers to respect and concern for our common humanity, but the future of our democracy demands that we learn how to transcend them.鈥�
