Seth Leibsohn: Reminding Ourselves on the Great American Experiment
Townhall Review | Conservative Commentary On Today's News
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🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Those of us of a certain age will remember America’s 200th birthday well. It was a year-long celebration with pageantry and even commercials celebrating our patriotism everywhere. Now, months away from the date of our 250th birthday, all seems rather quiet on the Western civilizational front.
Our Founders weren’t so sure we’d last anywhere near this long—and yet, here we are 250 years later. What changed in the last 50 years? The media and the academy, both of which have trained millions of pupils and teachers and citizens to view America as a down-market commodity. History professors literally sneer at efforts to restore and remind about the very field they supposedly care about: teaching American history. And a great socialist effort to undermine the exceptionalism of America, and pride in it, has taken over an entire political party.
The great Czech writer Milan Kundera, put it that “The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory.” And that’s been the progressive effort here. We must know of it, we cannot let it prevail.
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| 0:31.0 | This is Seth Leibson for townhall.com. Those of us of a certain age will remember America's |
| 0:36.0 | 200th birthday well. |
| 0:37.7 | It was a year-long celebration with pageantry and even commercials celebrating our patriotism everywhere. |
| 0:43.1 | Now, months away from the date of our 250th birthday, all seems rather quiet on the Western civilizational front. |
| 0:49.5 | Our founders weren't so sure we'd last anywhere near this long, and yet here we are 250 years later. |
| 0:55.3 | What changed in the last 50 years? The media and the academy, both of which have trained |
| 0:59.3 | millions of pupils and teachers and citizens to view America as a down-market commodity, |
| 1:04.2 | history professors literally sneer at efforts to restore and remind about the very field they |
| 1:08.4 | supposedly care about, teaching American history, |
| 1:11.2 | and a great socialist effort to undermine the exceptionalism of America and pride in it has taken |
| 1:16.3 | over an entire political party. The great Czech writer Milan Kundera put it that the first step |
| 1:21.5 | in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. And that's been the progressive effort here. |
| 1:26.1 | We must know of it. We cannot let it prevail. |
| 1:29.5 | In times like these, we all need a word of encouragement. From pastor and bestselling author, |
| 1:34.2 | Max Lucado, comes the Max Lucado encouraging Word podcast with over 40 years of ministry and more than |
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