What is “the American idea”? It is the fractious, maddening approach to the conduct of human affairs that values equality despite its elusiveness, that values democracy despite its debasement, that values pluralism despite its messiness, that values the institutions of civic culture despite their flaws, and that values public life as something higher and greater than the sum of all our private lives.
Source: “77 North Washington Street” by The Atlantic Monthly Editors
Source: The Atlantic
Subjects: America, Culture
Source: The Atlantic
Subjects: America, Culture
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