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We just had the celebrations of July 4th, which causes us to think back to the founding of America

and the great spirit in which this country was launched, launched out of tyranny and launched

into freedom. But for the first time, I think this year and all the time I've been in America,

my sense of excitement and celebration was tempered by a feeling of foreboding, not a sense of personal

foreboding at all, but rather a foreboding for the country. Has the American experiment been

unwound? Has it been subverted? Are we living in the America that the founders would have wished?

What would the founders think if they were alive today? July 4th for me had this sort of double

meaning, a sense of mixed emotions, you might say, because I look around and I look at the way in

which the left is trashing, not just our culture, not just our founding faith, but trashing our

institutions one after the other. And ultimately, if you think about the architecture of the American

founding, it was a building of institutions. It's so strange, but we have two fundamental concepts

in the founding, the concept of civil rights, but also the concept of civil liberties.

Civil rights, of course, has to do with anti-discrimination, it has to do with all men are created equal,

but civil liberties has to do with our basic ability to speak our mind, express and practice our

faith, our freedom of conscience, our freedom of assembly, our freedom of private space, no unreasonable

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