In his novel “Mother Night,” Kurt Vonnegut wrote, “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” Ever since President Donald Trump uttered his first offensive...

I grew up in upstate New York, surrounded by farms, suburbia and forests. My summers were filled with tubing with my best friend in her boat on Lake George, going to summer camp in the Adirondacks and...