A Call to Action to Courts: Responding to the Coronavirus Pandemic and Racism
How should courts and partner justice institutions respond to the existential crises facing our society today? Peter F. Drucker, the dean of this country’s management philosophers, would give us this advice: The important thing is to identify the future that has already happened. Every hundred years or so, we experience a sharp transformation. We come to an inflection point and must cross a divide, writes Peter Drucker in The New Realities , originally published in 1989. “Within a few short decades, society rearranges itself – its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structure, its arts, its key institutions. Fifty years later, there is a new world. And the people born then cannot even imagine the world in which their grandparents lived and into which their own parents were born.” We are today at such a transformation: at the confluence of existential crises that reinforce each other – the coronavirus pandemic, economic collapse, structural racism, social u