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  "textContent": "America’s Immigrant Soccer Team \"The U.S. team last week clinched a spot in the knockout round after defeating Australia. A quarter of its players were born outside of the U.S., including Gio Reyna, Antonee Robinson and Sebastian Berhalter (U.K.), Sergiño Dest (Netherlands), Malik Tillman (Germany) and Alejandro Zendejas (Mexico).\" \"Many players are also first- or second-generation Americans of diverse descent. Forward Haji Wright was born to a father from Ghana and mother from Liberia. Striker Ricardo Pepi’s parents immigrated from Mexico. Attacking midfielder Christian Pulisic’s grandfather was a Croatian emigrant.\" \"Star striker Folarin Balogun, who scored two goals in the opening game victory over Paraguay, was born in Brooklyn in 2001 to a Nigerian mother visiting New York from London. Two months later she returned with him to the U.K. where he grew up. Under Mr. Trump’s birthright citizenship order, he wouldn’t have automatically received U.S. citizenship since his mom was a temporary visitor. He may not have been eligible for the U.S. team.\" Liberalism’s Two Essential Men by Rachel Mackey, Frank Pagano \"Faulkner shows that the preservation of liberalism, thus its longevity, cannot depend upon the passions that liberalism may spawn. Rather, longevity relies on a variety of traditional virtues. As a consequence of a contradiction within itself, liberalism requires two founders. Modern liberalism depends upon ancient nobility. The American founding required Washington’s greatness, and his spirit was an unpredictable concatenation of virtues. Liberalism does not produce great statesmen equal to the crises that a liberal nation will encounter—yet it may allow them to exercise their virtue to its highest degree.\" \"Robert Faulkner’s essays, as collected in Politics, Progress, and the Constitutional Order, reveal the foundations of the American regime, and our indebtedness not only to Enlightenment philosophy, but to the extraordinary genius, character and self-restraint of George Washington. Robert Faulkner’s scholarly virtues permitted him to appreciate the benefits of liberalism and Washington’s greatness.\" Can Patriotism Survive Cynicism? by Meghan Cox Gurdon \"I wonder if it is becoming impossible to sustain patriotism—a thing of loving sincerity—in an age dominated by mockery and sarcasm. Our entertainment products, even books and media for children, have come to skew toward the knowing, sardonic and subversive. Social media abounds with gotcha commentary and cynical disingenuousness.\" \"American culture has become far more humorless and scolding than it used to be, and though citizens 50 years ago were half a century closer to the real historical depredations of slavery and Indian removals, they also remembered what a miracle of courage and intellect it was that, in a world run by monarchs, America’s founders dared to create a democratic government of laws, a republic with checks and balances on power. We take it for granted today that all men are created equal, but in 1776 it was a revolutionary idea. That it took time for our political process to expand the franchise to all men, and to women, doesn’t obviate that achievement.\" This Is What ‘Revolutionary Terror’ Looks Like by Noah Rothman \"The missive, in which its author sees totalitarian socialism’s sexual conventions as a remedy for his celibacy, is replete with criticisms of the capitalist enterprise as well as calls for the abolition of private property and the state ownership of industry. It expounds on the most effectively propagandistic ways to murder elites, whom he describes as “the more virulent and filthy facets of the capitalist economy.” And it defends the moral and ethical nature of “revolutionary terror.”\" \"The attacker seems to have been consumed with resentment toward women. But it was the revolutionary Marxist ethic and the vestigial Soviet-style attacks on the perfidy of the Zionist enterprise that provided this killer with a psychological permission structure for murderous violence. He seems to have assumed that there was an audience for this sort of thing. And, given the recent outbreak of left-wing political violence (which I chronicle in my latest book), it seems like there is.\" \"Montreal police have warned that the attack could inspire copycats. But if police are on the lookout for killers inspired by “incel ideology,” and not radical Marxist revolutionary dogma, they will only contribute to what is clearly emerging as a threat to domestic security throughout the West.\"",
  "title": "Tuesday's Trailheads",
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