In the United States, our annual holiday celebration of freedom has come and gone. This year, it was a holiday of mixed emotions: a celebration of the survival of our democracy tinged with anxious awareness that as much as a third of the population supports a conspiracy to overturn it; a celebration of release from pandemic lockdown muted with grief over those who did not survive to celebrate it with us.
July 9, 2021
July 9, 2021
July 9, 2021
In the United States, our annual holiday celebration of freedom has come and gone. This year, it was a holiday of mixed emotions: a celebration of the survival of our democracy tinged with anxious awareness that as much as a third of the population supports a conspiracy to overturn it; a celebration of release from pandemic lockdown muted with grief over those who did not survive to celebrate it with us.