On June 15, I wrote about change coming because of the murder by police of George Floyd, an innocent African American man. That change would be a third Reconstruction, as the journalist Charlie Pierce wrote this week. 

COVID gives us a chance to redesign the physical and social environment that has gone awry in the last generation. Going back is no option. We must innovate to a new way of living.

I have pre-ordered the book It was All a Lie - How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump by Stuart Stevens.

There are two people I have met in life who bring a room to silence when they enter: the Dalai Lama and John Lewis.