Thoughts on American Exceptionality

by Mark Anthony Signorelli (January 2012)

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
– Edmund Burke, Reflections

I think the best way to judge whether or not America is presently a liberating force in the world is simply to examine the sort of liberty we enjoy here at home. After all, we cannot export what we do not possess. If liberty here is vital and dignifying, then we have good cause to believe ourselves capable of spreading liberty to foreign lands. But if instead, liberty has decayed among us into something base, then our capacity to be the harbinger of liberty to foreign peoples should stand in doubt.

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