Also, @A_Jay_Adler has a firecracker of a read today, on another facet of national identity. I'm deeply heartened to go from posting my own piece on the dangers of national myths to reading this sharp exploration of specific transgressions.

“Every time I heard or read about slavery being the nation’s original sin, I felt – without, in any way, discounting that truth – a stunned reminder of the utter absence from the social conversation of the nation’s ab-original sin.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/ajayadler/p/recovering-from-discovery