Most of us take primaries for granted as an unchangeable feature of our politics that has always been with us.

The pope’s decision was issued “in contradiction to the unchangeable Catholic teaching that the church cannot bless sinful relationships,” the conservative LifeSiteNews wrote.

We argue that encouraging people to “find” their passion may cause them to eventually believe that interests and passions are inherent and relatively unchangeable.

And I thought: It needs to be strong and unchangeable.

In that sense, Lerner continually reminds us, “The Lights” is an object, a published book, unchangeable — in this version, at any rate.