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Carlos Lozada

By Carlos Lozada

Opinion Columnist

Hovering among the song lyrics, sports scores and movie quotes that clutter up my brain, there are a few key texts that I have committed to memory. The Gettysburg Address, for one. Psalm 23. The preamble to the Constitution, plus the first few sentences of the Declaration of Independence. (After “the consent of the governed,” things get hazy.)

And there’s another manifesto rattling around up there, one that I learned some 21 years ago, when I began working at The Washington Post. It is less well known to the world, but no less vital to my worldview.

It is........

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