Uneducated in either racehorses or wine, I pick mine by the name. If I saw Lazy Bones Carbernet on the store shelf, I’d buy it to support cleverness. Of course I picked Journalism to win the Kentucky Derby. But I’m not sorry Sovereignty won. In retrospect I think journalism is already getting too much press, as either the cause of the nation’s problems or their solution. It’s best that journalists stay out of the news to quietly do the work. Sovereignty, on the other hand, is a little-understood word. It means freedom from external control. For women it means, “hands off my body.” For Canada it means, “not for sale.” For all it says, “no means no.” Sovereignty is worth celebrating in the winner’s circle. – Fletcher Farrar, editor
This article appears in Fighting back against Trump.
