Who are we as Americans?

President Barack Obama, in his May 21 speech at the National Archives Museum in Washington said that “we can defeat Al Qaeda ...if we stay true to who we are...anchored in our timeless ideals.” A much more somber note, however, was in a warning by retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter the day before at Georgetown University Law Center.

By: Nat Henthoff, The First Amendment, The Jamestown Sun