All any of us can do is follow our own conscience and retain faith in our democracy

In 1970, Charles Schulz, the beloved creator of the Peanuts comic strip, received a letter from a young fan named Joel Lipton. Ten-year-old Joel, along with his classmates, had been given a straightforward yet weighty assignment: each was to reach out to someone they admired and pose a simple question, “What makes a good citizen?”