Humility doesn’t mean loathing yourself or pretending you’re worse than you are. It means understanding your limits and avoiding self-destructive hubris — of the kind that toppled Lucifer, drove Napoleon into Russia, and led Americans after the fall of the Soviet Union to imagine we’d “ended history.”

“Hubris” is the sense that too many guys after too many beers often have that they’re invincible … and maybe it’s time to go tell those noisy immigrants over there to pipe down and “act like Americans.” No matter that there are ten of them, or that some look pretty strong. What are you, some kind of coward?

And anyway, you remember that one of them treats his dogs pretty badly, while another breaks labor laws, and a third lets his son sell weed out of his house. If you don’t do something now, you’re acting like … that guy with the walrus moustache who gave in to Hitler. “Erkel” Chamberlain? You aren’t sure, but what does it matter … ?