A crowd listens to speakers at a reparations rally outside of City Hall in San Francisco, on March 14, 2023. Jeff Chiu/AP Photo11/14/2025|Updated: 11/14/2025CommentaryIn “I Suffer Therefore I Am: Portrait of the Victim as Hero,” Pascal Bruckner exposes the moral vanity behind our obsession...

CommentaryCities have long been the crucibles of civic life, where individuals from diverse backgrounds come together under a shared framework of social norms and mutual understanding. It is in urban settings that the civic virtues of trust, cooperation, and public engagement are most needed,...