To me, the Constitution has always been an abstract force, a sacred document existing outside the human realm. It has, and hasn’t.Īt its core, I suppose America was born out of the Constitution. I waited for the election to be over, hoping the outcome would give me some clarity. But in anticipation of what turned out to be a turbulent, history-making presidential election, I was unsure what America would look like in just a few days.Īs I sit here writing now, Joe Biden’s victory speech feels like eons ago, and yet I feel no more certain about what America is. I was hoping to review “What the Constitution Means to Me” and “David Byrne’s American Utopia,” two new stage-to-screen adaptations that, in their own ways, explore what it means to be an American. When I sat down to write this article at the end of October, I failed to put pen to paper.
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