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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Oh, Canada!

We begin today with Columbia University historianEric Foner,writing forThe Nation about the provenance of some of themes featuredin the Rev. Dr.Martin Luther King’s August 28, 1963, speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It is easy to forget how thoroughly American King’s “I Have a Dream” speech was. He wrapped himself, and the movement he had come to personify, in the mantle of core American values discernible in the most cherished documents of the national experience. In a little over 1,500 words, he managed to invoke the Emancipation Proclamation, the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the patriotic song “America,” interspersed with the language and cadences of the Bible.

Daily Kos     Aug 29, 2023