THE NEW JERUSALEM

THE NEW JERUSALEM

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THE NEW JERUSALEM
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The List #48: Founding Father

The List #48: Founding Father

How do we tell our story?

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Spencer Klavan
Jan 17, 2025
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The United States is nearly 250 years old. Ours is among the greatest true stories ever told, and we’ve been fighting—sometimes brutally—over how to tell it. Until recently it seemed like a revisionist narrative would take over, replacing the real-life super-heroism of our founders with a bitter indictment of their all-too-human failures.

Now the country is in a brighter mood, thank God, and 2026 feels like a good time to rediscover the true glory of our forefathers. But even with the sincerest good will toward them, we’ve been through so much that separates us from them. The question of the moment is: how can we retell our story?

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