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The Case for American Seriousness

Honestly with Bari Weiss

CHAPTER

The Loss of American Seriousness Is the Deterioration of Institutional Will

It is unserious to be led by a garantocracy where our elected officials had kids in college when the internet was invented. America is still the country that immigrants traverse the world to get to, because of their wavering belief that this land is far better than the nations they're leaving. We do not need aging institutions to pave the way for american dynamism. But we need Americans who are willing to build something new from nothing. There's no fixed pie when it comes to building. Building is an action, a choice, a decision to create and move. It is shovels in the dirt with a motley crew of doers who get the job done because no one

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