In an age when newspapers rail against the nearly 50% of voters who did not vote in the last election, you might think I’m crazy to ask voters to do even more than that. But voter apathy has two facets....

A very old parable, one that goes back to – oh, let’s say around 30 AD – talks about the foolish builder who built his house on sand. The rains poured down and washed his house away. “And mighty was...