To borrow a starting point from Alexis de Tocqueville and the founding fathers, let’s pause to consider America’s enduring habits of the heart and how they can help us constitute a more perfect union

 Our resident humanities scholar and Editor-at-Large, Clay Jenkinson contends that the country is the combination of three constitutions – Written, Mediated, and Lived – and your experience with them may vary.

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