250 Things We Love About America
This story raises questions about governance, accountability, and American values.
A list of 250 things to love about this country, timed to the anniversary, is such a simple idea that it's almost funny it needed to be made at all. Of course we can name 250 things. Most Americans could hit fifty before finishing their coffee.
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The rush of day-to-day obligations and the occasional frustrations and disappointments of contemporary American life pose the risk that, at times, even the most ardent patriots among us may forget to pause and appreciate this extraordinary country.
That danger is worsened by the negative onslaught from the press, the universities, and the museum world. They misleadingly depict America as thoroughly surpassed by China, following 250 years of U.S. racism, sexism, classism, and settler-colonial dispossession of the indigenous population.
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A list of 250 things to love about this country, timed to the anniversary, is such a simple idea that it's almost funny it needed to be made at all. Of course we can name 250 things. Most Americans could hit fifty before finishing their coffee. That we're at a point where somebody felt obligated to compile the list, footnotes and all, tells you something about where the cultural conversation has drifted.
The piece is right that the drumbeat from campus lecture halls and museum placards has gotten relentless. Every exhibit seems required to mention dispossession before it gets around to the achievement. Every commencement speech treats 1776 as a debt still being paid off rather than a promise still being kept. None of that history should be hidden. But treating it as the whole story, instead of one chapter in a much bigger one, is its own kind of dishonesty.
Loving a country and being honest about its failures aren't opposites. People do both about their own families every day. What's tiresome is the assumption that gratitude is naive and grievance is sophisticated. Two hundred fifty years in, a little unembarrassed appreciation isn't nostalgia. It's just accurate.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.