A Way Forward: A Call to Restore the American Project is a significant initiative of the Pepperdine Public Policy School that roots American exceptionalism in our Constitution. The Constitution, the organizers write, provides the basis for “the energetic social and political institutions — from schools and houses of worship to workplaces and political parties — to supply moral order and speak to our deep human needs for virtue and belonging.”
The call of A Way Forward invites a recovery of relational human truths that have been lost in our ongoing emancipations from the real and exaggerated oppressions of the past. As the organizers well recognize, politics is key, but such an effort must involve more. We need to think broadly and engage the human person at the level of imagination, education, and culture. And part of that spirit will involve telling great stories that connect with our best sense of who we are. In what follows, I venture a brief undertaking in that regard.
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