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You have been holding your breath since January 6th. You have watched a felony conviction fail to disqualify a presidency, a national monument shrink by ninety percent overnight, an airport rename itself after the man who flies out of it, and a foreign head of state get dragged into a Manhattan courtroom, and you still cannot tell if any of it is supposed to be normal now.
It is not the first time. In 1876, Philadelphia staged a vast exhibition to celebrate a hundred years of American progress in the same year Reconstruction was being dismantled by force a few hundred miles south. In 1877, the guardrails did not break. They bent, in a backroom deal that traded away a decade of civil rights for political peace. The bending did not feel like collapse at the time. It rarely does.
Between Two Centennials is written directly to you, the reader who is still awake to what is happening. Seven essays braid the gold leaf and the branding, the guardrails and what it costs to keep them bent, the cruelty that has become administrative routine, and the incoherence of a government that mistakes force for strategy, against their nearest historical mirror: the Centennial year that also could not tell the difference between celebration and collapse.
This is not a comfort. It is a way of naming things precisely enough to stop holding your breath and start seeing clearly.
You have been holding your breath. This is permission to name why.
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