Sunday Drive: Amazing Grace

If you haven't heard the eulogy for the Rev. Senator Clementa Pinckney that President Obama gave on Friday, do listen to it below. It is one of the finest presidential speeches ever made, an elegant, apt, historic statement about race, grace, and America that will be remembered long after you and I are dust, my friends.

President Obama on the Charleston Shooting

I’ve had to make statements like this too many times. Communities like this have had to endure tragedies like this too many times. . . . this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency. And it is in our power to do something about it.

Transcript here.

"Nine" by Barry Blitt for the New Yorker.