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GUEST COLUMN: Rediscovering the American idea
Saturday, July 4, 2020
This Fourth of July we celebrate America's 244th birthday. Not quite a Sestercentennial but close. If you were to have taken a poll back in 1776 you would be hard pressed to find many around the globe who would have thought that this fledgling upstart of a nation would have made it to 244 candles on its birthday cake. Historically, it is remarkable. No nation had tried self-government on this scale. No country had begun its existence with a philosophical claim or the adoption of a creed, as embodied in the Declaration of Independence. After all, that's one of the reasons America is exceptional.
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