George Bernard Shaw nails it here. How proud should you be because you happened to have born in the United States? Intelligent, fair-minded people are proud of their accomplishments, not some accident that happened to them. Arguably, American patriotism is …
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American Patriotism
I remember an essay I wrote when I was applying to colleges in 1972 in which I drew the distinction between what America’s Founding Fathers had intended and what the nation had ultimately become. I recall wondering if this made …
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