America's Skewed Worldview
Thomas Klau, a writer for the Financial Times Deutschland, has an interesting view on how the impact of American’s view of the world through the prism of the Founders may be distorting not only how we see the world, but how we see ourselves as well.
The title of the article is: ‘Cult of the Founding Fathers' is Obscuring America’s Worldview. Here is one prominent bullet:
This allows the United States to persist in describing itself as the freest country on earth, although by nearly every objective criterion, most European nations are more liberal and free than the United States.This would make a wonderful topic for a dialogue or a Socrates Café. The English translation is here.