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The American Mind

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The Struggle for the Ultimate Programming of Christianity

In a nation such as the U.S., it needs an overarching transcendent unifying concept of all time, says Julian Zelizer. And so there's this struggle over what the ultimate, the prime directive, the ultimate programming is, he says. "With a Borg as powerful and potent and omnipresent as ours is in America, it needs that operating system" He adds: There has never been a large republic; we're going to do a large republic for the first time.

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