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							<title><![CDATA[Why America Is a &lsquo;Creedal Nation&rsquo;]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/why-america-is-a-creedal-nation-75676aa8?st=1c5YTU</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gordon Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The distinguished historian says the U.S. isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t like other nations and never has been. There is no American ethnicity to back up the state.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Second Jacksonian Age]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/era-of-trump-fake-news-echoes-to-jacksonian-age-by-gordon-s-wood-2021-03</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gordon Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Jacksonian era in antebellum America was, like our own age, a time of extreme democratization and rampant anti-elitism. Now, too, the democratization of knowledge and truth can produce an odd mixture of credulity and skepticism among many ordinary Americans.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Celebrating Our Unique Country's Origins]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-what-independence-day-really-means-20190704-teue64vyz5getk4jaq4v3z2qxe-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gordon Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Fourth of July, Independence Day, is not just a time for barbecues and fireworks. It is also a time for us to reflect on the meaning of the Declaration of Independence. That declaration is the most important document in our history, even more important than the Constitution. It sums...]]></description>
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