Dr. James Peterson: The messiness of America’s drained-pool politics
Perhaps Washington's Reflecting Pool should stay exactly as it is. Its mess reflects ours. By Dr. James Peterson The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become an unironic reflection of the current administration. The Reflecting Pool is supposed to center the architecture of American democracy – the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial. These days, we all see an administration reflected back at itself: murky, expensive, badly managed, reflexively punitive and seemingly incapable of accepting responsibility for any of the mess it […]
