The Washington Post, which still runs that increasingly self-parodying banner “democracy dies in darkness,” has an article on the new US citizenship test, which the Trump administration has re-designed to make it longer and harder. From here on out, every journalist who happens to get an interview with any member of the administration, or, hell, with any politician, should be obligated to ask that person at least three of these questions. To see if they get them right. Back in the 1990s, during the heyday of communitarianism, Katha Pollitt ran a wonderful little experiment, where she asked leading academic communitarians what sort of community activities they had engaged in during the previous month or so. The results were clarifying. Beyond […]