Hope for our troubled times.
The Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins is under threat.
We have to give ourselves—individually and collectively—to the work of re-imagining the meaning of our nation.
My family worked hard to join a nation that would respect us. We became Americans. We loved American traditions. But today, we feel lost.
What happened yesterday?
Just as Obama became a symbol of progressive diversity, Trump has become a symbol of longing for a pre-Obama America.