How the culture wars can show what’s right with America
The arguments over statues matter more than the statues themselves
A COUNTRY WHOSE national representatives can scarcely agree to pay the government’s salaries or cover its debts is a poor candidate for exploring how to tell its national story. And America is not failing to disappoint. At the national level, the debates over American history are as unsatisfying as the other culture wars between leftist inquisitors and Trumpist berserkers, who thrill to each other’s excesses while exhausting everyone else.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Stone-cold killer”
United States December 11th 2021
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