Yale Law Prof Urges Students to ‘Love America’ as Patriotism Dips on the Left
“My life is so much better than my parents’ was in India”
This professor’s heart is in the right place, but there are plenty of college students who will just reject this message.
Campus Reform reports:
Yale professor urges students to ‘love America’ as patriotism slips to historic low
A Yale Law School professor is encouraging Americans to appreciate their country despite recent polls showing national pride has dropped to historic lows.
In an interview with The Free Press, podcast host Bari Weiss asked Professor Akhil Reed Amar if people should love America. “Yes, I do, and you should,” Amar replied.
Amar, whose parents immigrated from India, emphasized gratitude for U.S. opportunities compared to global conditions. “My life is so much better than my parents’ was in India,” he said.
He contrasted the U.S. border wall with barriers built by communist regimes to keep citizens from escaping.
“You know, we can debate the wall,” he said. “But the wall is to keep people out because people want to come here, as opposed to the Soviet Union and Eastern Germany, which had walls to keep people in.”
In an email to Campus Reform, Amar explained that his comments were motivated by his sense of history and geography.
“Along many dimensions, America in 2025 seems more impressive—more perfect, if you will—than America seemed in, say, 1825 or 1925,” he wrote. “For all our lapses, America in 2025 still seems better than most places around the world.”
When asked how students at elite campuses should reconcile critiques of American history with gratitude for current freedoms, Amar said students “should read both critiques and defenses of America and decide for themselves.”
“My own books try to present both America’s biggest lapses and America’s greatest triumphs,” he added.
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national pride has NOT DROPPED
but socialism/nazis has risen
biggg difference
Leftists’ greatest criticisms of the US all center on things the US has since abolished. Contrast that with countries where many of these immigrant agitators originate, which still practice them.
I’m afraid the good professor is soon to be gone driven out either by the students, his fellow professors, or the administration, but probably by all three,