Patrick Stewart's Picard Showed What Good Men Do With Power
Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power
Patrick Stewart, who died Wednesday, turned Captain Jean-Luc Picard into the voice of 1990s liberalism: a commander of the Federation's most heavily armed ship who spent more time delivering vaccines than firing weapons. Vox argues that The Next Generation's faith in trustworthy institutions and reasoned argument looks naive in Trump's America, yet its core lesson — that power can be wielded justly — matters more than ever.
When the first link of the chain is forged, the first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, it chains us all irrevocably.