By THOMAS L. KRANNAWITTER, PH.D. | Guest Commentator
Several years ago, The New York Times launched a new progressive initiative called The 1619 Project. It has been wildly popular and has garnered significant acclaim, turning obscure journalists and writers into DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) celebrities. Materials from The 1619 Project are now being transformed into curricula and distributed to schools across the country, likely including the schools your children attend.
The first sentence of the first essay published by The 1619 Project asserts: “Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written.” Happily for Americans and the rest of humanity, The 1619 Project is wrong regarding the most important subject it addresses.
For now, let us set aside the misleading reference to the United States as “our democracy.” We will discuss what a democracy is, how it differs from other regime forms, and why our American constitutional republic is more than a mere democracy, on another occasion.
On this Independence Day, 2024, let us address the crucial question of why it matters that our “founding ideals” were true when they were written, and remain true today.
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