Since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, every week has come with some “high noon” reckoning — a lonely, do or die moment when Americans face a choice between fight or flight. Suddenly and unfairly, history shines a spotlight on us, and all the reassuring civics lessons we learned in school fly out the window. It may come in the form of a powerhouse law firm wilting before a badgering president’s demands for free legal services, or is perhaps personified by the refusal of a lowly civil servant to turn over the personal files of citizens to Elon Musk or Tom Homan. In High Noon in America, Capital & Main looks at the people and institutions that succeeded or failed to stand up against intimidation.
