“Intellectual.”  It sounds elitist.  It sounds like it doesn’t matter.  Let’s talk about that.

“Leadership.”  Ah!  Now that sounds like it matters.  Especially good leadership.  Leaders I want to follow.  Let’s talk about that too.

“The Public Square.”  That’s where we meet to talk about politics and what is and is not working in our society and public lives.  It’s not personal; it’s public.  Yea, but . . .  No one talks in the public square.  Too much noise.  Too much hostility.  Let’s talk about that too.

“Economic Justice” is the ninth chapter in Let’s Get Civil: Healing Our Fractured Body Politic.”  By the time the readers got to it, they had already done of ton of work on the historical and intellectual background upon which this chapter is based.  That required the readers to exercise a high level of delayed gratification, which asks a lot.  This is a blog.  It’s on the internet.  Maybe I should not ask so much from my readers.