Individual Initiative: The Key to Our Civic Renewal

Individual Initiative: The Key to Our Civic Renewal
A U.S. flag hangs in a classroom as students work on laptops in Newlon Elementary School in Denver, Colo., in a file photo. David Zalubowski/AP Photo
Jack Miller
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In 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a task force to explore reparations for chattel slavery. Recent polling suggests, however, that even most Californians are opposed to cash payments to descendants of enslaved people. Reparations just aren’t a very American idea—they clash with our commitments to individual responsibility and equal opportunity rather than equal outcomes.
Jack Miller
Jack Miller
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Jack Miller is the founder and chairman of the Jack Miller Center, an organization that promotes the teaching of America’s founding principles and history by supporting professors and programs on campuses nationwide as well as courses for K-12 teachers that help them build engaging lessons for their students.
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