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Leave it to a Randian to miss the “crown thy good with brotherhood” part. I still prefer “America the Beautiful.” Even at that early age, I think I intuited that nothing short of divine assistance would do. LikeLike

You still have to give a shout out to Uncle Ray, whose soulful rendition of “America the Beautiful” is still.. beautiful, even if the US of A needs a major face-lift: LikeLiked by 1 person

In my patriotic and Randian youth I actually wrote a piece (which I may or may not still have somewhere) opposing any change from “The Star-Spangled Banner” to “America the Beautiful,” on the grounds that the latter focuses prim…

When I was eight years old, I wrote to the President of the United States–Jimmy Carter, at the time–asking him to change the national anthem from “The Star Spangled Banner” to “America the Beautiful” (I think it was) on the grounds that the former was unbecomingly and demoralizingly war-loving. The White House wrote back a…

Thanks, Irfan. That is interesting and helpful. A nice model for a certain kind of possible SJW moralistic overreach. I take it that you suspect that many SJWs erroneously think something like this: by analogy to the state’s required response to cer…