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Thoughts on July 4, America, and multiculturalism

July 4, 2008 - 5:47 am - by Roger Kimball
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2008-07-05 00:31:56

Roger, indeed, the west and America currently decays under a condition of anomie and existential crisis brought on by lack of cohesion. However, the remedy probably requires a less holistic fix than you believe.
It is said ad infinitum that our country was founded upon a creed, so it seems logical to me that we merely re-instill that simple creed
into the people. I’m not convinced it takes all the muscle of fighting an all-encompassing culture war on the behalf of ‘anglo-protestant’ values if people just take our binding creed to heart. Win the people behind a few core axioms, and we win everything that follows from there.