Just as surely as the sources of America’s greatness have been intellectual and moral, the secret to our future peace and prosperity will be rooted in a deepening of the life of the mind and the soul. The real challenge to America’s stunning hegemony is not the inevitable distribution of digital devices to rustic peoples in faraway places. It is the palpable loss of the singular spiritual imagination and moral clarity which—from Plymouth Plantation to the Lunar Landing—has defined us.
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