A toast to America at 250, glowing and decaying all at once

“Shine, Perishing Republic,” wrote the poet Robinson Jeffers in 1925 about a corrupt Roaring Twenties America that he feared was “heavily thickening to empire.” We survived that degradation, just as we will the present. But Jeffers’s twin sentiments should guide us as we celebrate our 250th birthday...

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