Inane

On November 13th, 1789, Benjamin Franklin wrote “Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world ...

It’s in the air! Slate / prick / image/ inane was the path he took. The pandemic. And these days, with the United States in one dire strait after another, Franklin may well be right about the durability of the Constitution. Slavery, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam, Iraq, the Depression, the Housing Crisis. Not long after the Constitution was written, two of the Founding Fathers—John Adams and Thomas Jefferson—had a falling out that would last the rest of their lives.