We are the world made small. We must attempt to reconcile our competing interests or be consumed by them.
John Farmer, Jr, director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, says at stake, and in graduates' hands, is nothing less than the future of the American experiment. "For absent a spirit of pragmatic compromise, our system of divided powers is in fact designed to fail."Class of 2022, know first that we are aware of the challenges you have faced.
What is that essence? At its heart, the American experiment rests upon an inveterate mistrust of power, of the kind of power on display in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine or in the Chinese government’s suppression of the truth about the COVID-19 pandemic until it was too late to contain it.
Don’t miss the best in editorials, opinion columns and commentary from NJ.com writers. Add your email here: That is largely where we stand today, class of 2022, as you take your place as America’s future leaders. The commitment to pragmatic compromise has been largely discredited in favor of ideological purity.
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