David Gergen on the country’s future

“On a recent afternoon as we were sitting together watching the migrating birds and capturing the last of the autumnal sunshine, my father awoke to more words of clarity.” Katherine Gergen Barnett, David Gergen’s daughter, wrote down her father’s fleetingly lucid thoughts: “My father, David Gergen, has dementia. Here are his reflections on the path forward for our country” (The Boston Globe ).