How do you define the national greatness of the United States?
This year marks 250 years since America’s founding. Millions will be celebrating, and there is reason to celebrate. In fact, there is an inspiring spiritual dimension to America’s founding and rise to greatness—though most people are unaware of it. Do you know why America became great? Most people cannot answer that question.
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Before wealth or military power, there was something even more foundational.
America is an exceptional country. The first solo trans-Atlantic flight, the first man on the moon, the construction of the Hoover Dam and Panama Canal, the defeat of the World War II Axis powers, the national eradication of polio and the invention of GPS all testify of American mettle and ingenuity. The people of the United States make up about 4 percent of the world’s population, yet they produce 26 percent of global economic output and hold 33 percent of the world’s wealth.
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Two oceans, a continent of farmland, and the largest network of navigable rivers on Earth—at a glance.
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If you think 1776 was spectacular, you need to know about American antiquity.
Why did Britain create the largest empire in world history? Why does America dominate the world today? Why does Western science, culture, art and literature dominate? Historians have devoted their entire careers to examining these questions. They lie at the heart of understanding the world today. But the rise of Britain and America is hard to explain. There is nothing like it in human history. It is stunning, profound and quite moving.
Read more ›God’s hand has often been visible in pushing the U.S. forward.
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Whether or not these enduring principles are followed distinguishes backward nations from great ones.
What makes a nation great? Many books have been devoted to the subject. Why did European powers conquer the Americas and not the other way around? Why did Europe colonize Africa and not Africa Europe?
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The answer lies in the story of how and why it was written.
The United States is one of the world’s youngest major nations, yet it possesses the world’s oldest continuously functioning written national constitution. What explains the U.S. Constitution’s remarkable durability? How did it help lay the foundation for the most powerful, prosperous and free nation in modern history?
Read more ›We get American liberty from the men of 1776. Where did they get it from?
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America’s 250th anniversary isn’t just a happy occasion for Americans.
Hundreds of millions of people who are alive today would be dead without the help of Americans. Many foreigners and even American leftists portray the United States as the “evil empire” that has brutalized the Earth. The truth is that the way America has wielded its immense power and wealth has, from a material perspective, for most of its history, been an overwhelming net blessing to almost everybody on the planet.
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President Trump says yes. What does God say?
“The golden age of America is upon us,” United States President Donald Trump declared at the end of his State of the Union address on February 24. In a sense, he is right. After the bitter years of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, some trends have been welcome changes. But we must see the bigger picture and gain a Bible-based understanding of the era America is in right now. The 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding is a perfect time to step back and take a hard look at what the United States of America has become.
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What America was born to become.
The way the light breaks across this country—there’s nothing like it. The vast darkness lightens and rolls away, clarifying into the golds of sunrise.
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The nation’s decline is real—but it is not the end of the story.
How can America become great again? On the campaign trail in 2016, Donald Trump gave his view. That summer, he wrote a book titled Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America. I didn’t know about his book at the time, but I also published a small book that summer titled Great Again. People need to compare these two books. Both are about America becoming great again, but they are opposites in how that will be achieved.
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