Walter Russel Mead appears on a panel hosted by the Aspen Institute at the Aspen Ideas Festival to discuss the start of the American experiment with the Declaration of Independence. As America reaches its 250th anniversary, the conversation examines what a “shared civil gospel” looks like today.
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155 shell bodies sit on a pallet at General Dynamics ready to be shipped on August 20, 2025, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. (Getty Images)