Like The 'little Emperors' Of One-child China,

America Is Exceptional: But Because It Yields The Likes Of Obama, Not The Likes Of Bush.

From The Right, You Get Demagogues Shouting About Brown-skinned Anchor Babies And Clamoring To Deport The Undocumented. From The Left, You Get Advocacy For The Oppressed But Otherwise, When It Comes To National Civic Identity, Mainly Silence.

What Does Purpose Mean? It Means The Deepest Desire For Our Short Lives To Mean Something. . . . To Speak A Language Of Purpose Is To Return To First Principles And To Be Able To Answer, In Plain English, The Plain Questions Of Why? Why Should We Chip In To Help Someone Else? Why Should We Defer Gratification? Why Should We Care About The Long Term? Why Should We Trust Anyone Who Seems To Be Limiting Our Ability To Do What We Want?

A Basic Assumption Shapes Most Americans’ Mindset About Labor: The Belief That The Death Of Unions Isn’t My Problem Because I’m Not In A Union. That Assumption Is Wrong. Even If You Aren’t A Member, Your Pay Is Influenced By The Strength Or Weakness Of Organized Labor. The Presence Of Unions Sets Off A Wage Race To The Top. Their Absence Sets Off A Race To The Bottom.

Great Numbers Of Asian Americans Do Not Fit The Model Minority Or 'tiger Family' Stereotypes, Living Instead In Multigenerational Poverty Far From The Mainstream.