Why America’s future is still bright 

‘There is a lot of ruin in a nation.’ So said Adam Smith over two centuries ago. He reminds us that strong, stable countries such as my country, America, can survive the pounding we have suffered over the past few years. Our nation may be continually tested, but it has deep reserves of strength.

In trying times, like the late 1960s and early 2020s, and today over this Thanksgiving weekend, it is important to remember just how robust and stable our country is. We are finally emerging from the Covid years — so badly mishandled by public health ‘experts’ — with school shutdowns (much beloved by teachers’ unions) both damaging to students and unnecessary (as Catholic schools proved). We are struggling too with inflation, rising interest rates, and slow growth. We will survive those.

Our reserves of strength are worth remembering as both political parties scream about the opposition’s unvarnished evil and, in the Democrats’ case, propose to overcome it by making fundamental changes to the Supreme Court and Senate.