Editor’s Picks: Remembering the Broken Promises — and the Possibilities — on Independence Day
…an seeks to redefine the American project (but without succumbing to the July 4 tendency to be “jingoistically repellent beyond belief”). Laarman suggests that we “reinvent American civil religion in a way that fully acknowledges… the Founders’ ‘rejection of a role in the political body’ for African Americans—not to mention a wide range of other foul crimes against people of color, including the Europeans’ genocidal treatment of the First Nations….
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