Referenda

    The nearest thing to rebellion,

    and fraught with risks of ex-

    cess, the referendum is an axe

    sometimes creating no more than

    an even worse impasse. We saw

    these dangers avoided in Maine,

    yesterday, where the human right

    to health care cleared a Repub-

    lican Governor from the beach.

    Notice has already been taken.

    The movement to secure health

    care as a right is hydraulic

    in implacability, and it will

    find its channel, in our time.

Max Barczak