Fourth of July Musings: What Does it Mean to be an American?
By Lambert Strether. Originally published at Corrente
I missed the parade. Which seems about right.
There was a Times series recently, which I didn’t manage to read — even though Jill Abramson really seems to have improved the paper, at least in non-policy areas, before she was axed — on “What does it mean to be an American?” Probably I avoided reading because I couldn’t answer the question. Or because the answer would have been too painful.
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