On Removing Certain Impediments to Democracy in the United States

What this nation can become will be influenced, though not fully determined, by the ways in which we think about ourselves as people. With a people as with a person, it is a sign of wisdom and maturity to understand and accept limits that are imposed by nature’s laws and the scarcity of resources, whether physical, human, or political. In this sense we Americans may at last be entering into our maturity. But to accept as real the limits that are imposed only by our own minds is not wisd...