Leaks and Consequences

“Impeachment suggests dysfunction, uncertainty, and discord—not the discord of war, which can be memorialized as valorous, purposeful, and idealistic, but the far less dramatic and often sad, squalid, intemperate conflicts of peace: partisanship, rancor, and racial division.”—Brenda Wineapple

Plus: a little-known speech by Jacques Barzun on the meaning of life, Ingrid D. Rowland on the playful genius of Tintoretto, and Tracy Thompson on the complicated legacy of the southern writer and social critic Lillian Smith