Bryan Dumont

A dawn reflection at the Lincoln Memorial reveals how stone, scripture, and sacrifice unite America’s creed, its sins, and its enduring promise.

This companion to Chapter 6 (Communitarian Individualism) explores how America’s long tradition of physical and social mobility served as the engine of its unique ideological synthesis: liberty in motion, constrained by voluntary obligation. Drawing on historical data, cultural memory, and contemporary signals—from Nomadland to declining driver’s license rates—it argues that as Americans stop moving, they lose not just opportunity but identity. When mobility fades, so too does the civic energy t

What does liberty look like in practice? In Part 2 of this series, explore the five civic habits that embodied American communitarian individualism—and why their erosion is a deeper crisis than we realize.