An Article of Confederacy

Each of three stunning events in the last several days of our collective American experience brings individual and profound significance worthy of a future college text. Taken together, the confluence of Cliven Bundy’s epic rise and fall, the high court’s clinical rejection of affirmative action and the Princeton/Northwestern study on modern oligarchy make for a mighty flood imperiling what’s left of polity and democracy in our beleaguered republic. He Wished He Was in the Land of Cotton . . . Heading to points west first, we find newly-minted right-wing American hero Cliven Bundy waxing philosophical on what’s horribly wrong with…