What is our response to graffiti on American landmarks?
Conservatives speak of our intellectual inheritance. As a child may receive his grandfather’s pocket watch or the family farm, so all of us have received as our inheritance the literary and historical treasures of the American experience. America’s literary works, its ideas of human dignity and individual rights, and the boundless social mobility and opportunities we have in the United States are all treasures akin to the family estate we’ve received by virtue of living, working, and learning in America. This heritage continues to shape us by having formed the country we live in and constituting the freedoms we enjoy now.
