When America Stops Believing in America, the World Notices

The Founders understood that a republic’s strength begins in the settled conviction of its own citizens.

For the last 250 years, America’s greatest export has not been a good or service. It has been a set of promises — that ordinary people can govern themselves under a written constitution; that our rights come from our Creator, not government; and that liberty is worth risking everything to secure.

Dissidents behind the Iron Curtain imported this promise. …