As Americans celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, critics on the Left portray the United States as a nation defined by racial and national-origin discrimination and by irreversible decline. Having lived under both Mao Zedong’s China and the American constitutional republic, I see something very different.
America’s greatest achievement is not that it has existed for 250 years. Many civilizations are older. China’s recorded history stretches back thousands of years.
America remains a beacon.
