What's The Alternative?

'No matter what other people say or do,' Marcus Aurelius repeated to himself, 'my job is to be good.' And this is our job too, no matter what.

Martin Luther King Jr. famously said that the arc of the moral universe is long, but that it bends toward justice. But it doesn't bend that way itself. No. It requires people like you to keep being good—to stick to what's right, to insist on truth just when history feels like it's at its longest, darkest period.