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David Brooks: What America means to me in 2021

Much of the drive and dynamism of American life comes from humiliated people saying, “We’ll show them who we are.”

(Damon Winter | The New York Times) The Statue of Liberty in New York, Oct. 29, 2019. New York Times opinion columnist David Brooks says a remarkable feature of America is that many of the scorned who came here responded to their humiliation with creative action.