The childhood lemonade stand is a powerful symbol of American entrepreneurship, representing our innate embrace of capitalism and its lure of risk and reward
Civil War documentarian Ken Burns has famously observed that, before the war when the country was divided, people would say, “The United States are. . . ” After the war when the country became as one, they said, “The United States is. . . ” I wonder how long it will be before Americans say, “The United States was. . . ”
