From time to time, some people get upset over the Pledge of Allegiance — it’s not being recited correctly or not being recited at all. In this post, however, Anthony Gregory of the Independent Institute examines the origins and function of the pledge and concludes that we’d be better off if it had never become part of our political culture.
I think it’s of a piece with JFK’s line about asking what you can do for your country — planting the idea that individuals are subordinate to the collective.
