Before the “polarization” and the “fractured republic” reality made it impossible to ignore our present condition, Jean Bethke Elshtain was sounding the alarm in the 1990s. She wrote that “If we have lost the sturdiness and patience to sustain our society over the long haul, then our democracy, as a social world and a culture, is in trouble.” Today we are all familiar with this behavior she describes, as for many, America has become “de-Americanized” in recent generations, but Luma Simms thinks there is a remnant that is ready to renew and rebuild. She joins us.

Further Reading

Re-Americanizing America: The Bond of Creed and Covenant

Re-Americanizing America: The American Heritage with Subcultures

Guest Info

Luma Simms is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Mrs. Simms is writer and thinker on American culture, religion, politics, political theology, immigration and immigration-adjacent issues. Her primary focus has been the critique of modern America through an immigrant lens.

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