America's Ancient City-On-Hill Metaphor

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Liberalism as the Shining City on a Hill

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America has cultivated the metaphor of a shining city on a hill to describe how a righteous society is a beacon for a better life.

The same torch that beckons the huddled masses toward Lady Liberty also illuminates the shame of liberal democracies that betray their values.

Liberalism likely needs the self-esteem expressed in a belief that it is a shining.

It has been compromised by President Donald Trump curtailing alliances and trade with nearly every liberal democracy.

W.E.B. Du Bois saw Israel ’s potential and urged his fellow Americans to help the aspiring country, writing that it was “not a difficult question.” He became an early supporter of Israel after he saw the flattened Warsaw ghetto. It taught him that his previous framework for understanding race relations had been provincial, restricted as it was to conflicts between black and white. He writes:.

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