by Martha Quillen I’m really concerned about American politics. Our public discourse has been divisive and immoderate for decades, but the citizenry never seemed as burned out, fed up and over it as some of my friends and acquaintances do now. People tell me that our political process is broken and bankrupt, that it’s been bought and paid for, that it’s corrupt and irrelevant. Others scathingly suggest that people who believe that their political views can matter – or should matter – are naïve and arrogant. Yet even in the wake of such criticism, I continue to obsess over the…
