The headlines today are dominated by the grim arithmetic of loss: eight lives extinguished in a charter plane crash near Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site in western Alaska.
The language of "gradation of gray" has become the default setting for any decision too complex, or perhaps too compromised, to admit simple moral clarity.
The American promise—the idea that the rule of law operates above the whims of any single administration or political faction—is not merely strained; it is being deliberately…