The Fireworks Were the Easy Part

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The Fireworks Were the Easy Part

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The tall ships are weighing anchor. The last of the fireworks ash has settled onto driveways from Boston to San Diego. Philadelphia has lowered a one-ton stainless steel time capsule into the ground at Independence National Historical Park, sealed until 2276. America's 250th birthday, the largest coordinated celebration in the nation's history, is now in the past tense. And the most important question of the entire Semiquincentennial has not yet been answered, because it was never going to be answered by a parade. It gets answered starting today.

Celebration is not conviction. A nation can cheer for liberty on the Fourth of July and surrender it by inches the other 364 days of the year. We have done exactly that for decades. So before the bunting comes down, it is worth asking the uncomfortable question the confetti was never designed to address. Was the 250th a launching pad, or was it a museum piece?

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