Social Justice & advocacy Column: A Reset

One way to think about this pause in our lives is as a rare—likely a once-in-a-lifetime—opportunity for a reset. We actually stopped, the one thing our societies have never heretofore done. Things ground to a halt, offering us the chance to examine our lives and our institutions. And now, if we want it, we have a chance to rearrange them. Sometimes we can see those rearrangements: wise cities are replacing car-dominated streets with bike lanes and pedestrian malls, for instance. But most of it will necessarily be less visible. If your city council or state legislature resumes normal operation without massively shifting its budget priorities, if your business just deploys its army of lobbyists to look for some more tax breaks, if your church just performs some delayed funerals and then goes back to where it was in January—well, in that case, none of this will have counted.

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