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MY TURN: Are you a patriot?

by CHRIS FILLIOS/My Turn
| July 4, 2026 1:00 AM

Over the past 10 years, I’ve often asked myself, “Am I a patriot?” I’ve even wondered what a “patriot” is. Are we re-fighting the Revolutionary War? Is our nation under assault by a foreign adversary, or even a domestic one?

I was inspired to write as I recently listened to a broadcast interview with Dominic Erdozain, a visiting scholar at Emory University (a Brit), author of To Love a Country: The Problem of Patriotism in America. Listeners to the broadcast responded to the question from different walks of life. As one might expect, the responses varied as follows:

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