Editor’s note: Following the release of “America’s Crisis of Self-Doubt,” National Review’s statement of affirming belief in America’s principles against growing doubts about them, on both left and right, National Review has invited signatories to the statement to elaborate on their own faith in America. You can find other entries here and here.
Today, in 2022, no big-budget American movie studio would make The Patriot. None, probably, would make Alexander — at least with a mostly-straight white leading man. That is an intentionally provocative header, but it seems simply undeniable that the good old U.S. of A., and indeed the West entire, is currently suffering from what my old coach Art Panka would have called “a real damn crisis of confidence.”
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