Quote of the Day (Alexander Karn, on ‘Willingness to Confront Our History’)

“The road to a ‘more perfect Union,’ which is enshrined in the Constitution, runs through the past, and it depends on our willingness to confront our history in an honest and thoroughgoing way.”— Colgate University historian Alexander Karn quoted by Dan Friedman and Amanda Moore, “Trump’s War on History,” Mother Jones, March-April 2026

(The image accompanying this post shows a detail from an anti-slavery almanac of the 1840s.)