A series whose purpose is to get the national conversation to focus on the central realities of the crisis in America today. These central realities are 1) that the Republican Party has become an instrument of a destructive force, and 2) that the response from Liberal America to this threat has been woefully weak.

The series will demonstrate the destructiveness of that force, and explain in naturalistic terms how such forces can arise and perpetuate themselves in civilized societies. And the series will identify and address the sources of the weakness that has beset Liberal America.

This "Press the Battle" campaign is an attempt "To Light a Fire in Liberal America," to connect more of that part of the American body politic to the moral and spiritual passions from which can come a more powerful response.

By this means, it is hoped, the present dangerous circumstance might be changed: a circumstance in which, as in the lines from Yeats' poem, "the best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are filled with a passionate intensity."