In my previous article, I argued that one of the great intellectual temptations of our time is the flattening of everything: the impulse to take complicated people, histories, identities, and conflicts and force them into categories that are easier to understand and, perhaps more importantly, easier to judge.
On Tuesday, after 34 years serving as a community leader in South Orange–Maplewood, and the last 10 years living here, my wife Raina and I will be moving.