Heritage vs. Creed: What Actually Makes You an American?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e5PLKhXvF0

Podcast audio:

In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer and Onkar Ghate discuss whether heritage or creed is what defines American national identity.

The American way and sense of life

Un-American “Heritage Americanism”

Irrelevant Anglo-Protestant “ethnicity”

Superior “Creedal Americanism”

History of “Creedal Americanism”

The eroding American sense of life

Resources:

Ayn Rand, Don’t Let It Go, in Philosophy: Who Needs It

Ayn Rand, “A Nation’s Unity”