A new framework for political problem-solving

A new axis: Culture vs Technique.

Introducing culture and technique as the new axis.

How a new axis can save the American political conversation.

In many ways, Martin Luther King was a good man - certainly a highly intelligent man. Well read, well spoken, influential well beyond his life. But equal to all the Presidents of the nation?

The Trust doesn't answer to anybody anymore. They don't even have to be right.

What is not acceptable, what is a non-starter, is the notion that we can dispense with the law.

I stood on the bridge; I stood right there on the bridge looking down at the Rio Grande River, and what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a Mexican gentleman who had started himself a ferryboat service.