Mark Menaldo’s outstanding essay today indicates the kind of essays we plan to publish more of in the future at The Constitutionalist. As we put the Trump storm behind us, the questions become: how do we make sense of where we are? how did we get here? how do we repair ourselves going forward? This is much harder work than the kind of anger we directed at Trump and his cronies. Menaldo’s call for an education that will help us overcome our barbarism gets at the deepest roots of the rot that has infected us. We just don’t understand ourselves or our regime anymore. We can’t repair ourselves because we don’t know what the car was supposed to look like in the first place. The barbarism of both last summer’s riots and of the attack on the capitol arose partially from ignorance. As Greg Weiner wrote in a recent article, the problem right now is as much “demand-side” as it is “supply-side.” And the “demand-side” problem can only be solved by better education. As Menaldo writes: “Our children, and those to come, deserve an education that will help them appreciate the precariousness of peace, prosperity, and political stability and keep barbarism at bay. This is my civilizing project.”