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250 Years Later, Why We’re Still Fighting About Our Founding

250 Years Later, Why We’re Still Fighting About Our Founding

The Daily vor 2 Monaten

With so many prisms through which to see the past, is there a story about the founding of America that can still be unifying?

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Two hundred and fifty years ago, the founding fathers gave rise
to a new nation. They also gave rise to an enduring myth about
their virtue and what that meant about America’s virtue as a
country.

Jia Lynn Yang, a New York Times journalist, discusses how the
founding myth has evolved, why we are still fighting about it and
why it may hold the key to America’s future.

Guest: Jia Lynn Yang, a New York Times
journalist writing explanatory pieces about the ideas underlying
the news.

Background reading:

Is there a founding story that can unify left and right?

Photo: Michelle Gustafson for The New York Times

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