Restore Us Again

Restore Us Again
Psalm 85

It is easy for me as a Brit to be resentful of the U.S. media’s critiques of Britain and Europe. “Why do they think it’s their business to criticize when the United States can’t solve its own problems?” I wonder. “Are the British media so critical of the United States?” But then I remind myself that the U.S. media are also critical of the United States. At present there is a sense of the United States no longer being number one, as it once was—in education, economics, healthcare, transportation, and so on. The media commentators seem to be saying, “We are Americans, and the rest of the world looks best when framed in our rear-view mirror. So we need to ask searching questions about how we lost our leading position and what can be done about it and about what our goals and hopes should be.”...