Rescuing the Declaration From Left- and Proper-Wing Polemics

Progressive left and postliberal proper intellectuals converge in educating scorn for America’s founding rules. Attacking from completely different angles, each camps make use of grossly flawed arguments to justify the repudiation of the U.S. Declaration of Independence’s ringing affirmation 249 years in the past of the unalienable rights that human beings share. Captive to the style for the gaudy and the melodramatic nurtured by American larger training, each camps wish to revalue conventional values, change the world slightly than perceive it, and exchange historical past’s complexities with simplistic grand narratives…