In 1962, James Baldwin wrote an essay for The New York Times Book Review entitled, "As Much Truth as One Can Bear." He insisted that the nation leave behind its preoccupation with innocence and confront its failures. And this required that we "describe us to ourselves as we are now." What would that involve today? How might we think about our current crisis and what we need to do now to reimagine America? Baldwin had it right in 1962: the trouble is deeper than we wish to think, because the trouble is in us.