Obama has shown himself to be perfectly at ease talking about America’s pluralism, his unique past, and America’s promise as illustrated by his own pluralistic past propelling him to the Presidency. But the Bradley Project on America’s National Identity has put in a request for other subjects. The Bradley Project was started to study and reverse the erosion of a unified national identity that comes from connection to the country’s values and history- values and history, that is, without the Ward Churchillian twist they’re so often given in public schools and colleges these days. Their advice for Obama’s teachable moment, which will undoubtedly be watched by huge crowds in person and on TV:
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