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353. Is the West exceptional?

2024/10/4
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The Western world has produced some of the most prosperous and most free civilizations on earth. What makes the West exceptional? How is America to be defined? By its failures or its triumphs? Today, there seems to be an obsession with the former and a dismissal of the latter. Is this dark vision of the freest and most prosperous nation on earth an accurate narrative or a cynical distortion? How we view America's past will very much shape America's future.

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