collection of readings entitled, "what so proudly we hail," edited by amy kass, leon kass and diana schaub. i see a lot of you have copies of the book. the book is a collection of short stories and speeches and reflections that all, in one way or another get at the question of american identity who we are and what we are about as a nation. it's about america's character and creed, the place of the law of courage and sacrifice of civility and republican virtues in our civic life and enormously difficult challenges of assimilation and integration in american life, building and sustaining our impossibly complex society. and it's a collection that as the subtitle suggests, speaks not just to the mind, but to the heart and soul. one of the things it captures especially well is the way in which american patriotism has always addressed itself to the hearts and minds of american citizens, how our creed has always been part philosophy and part poetry. that has always made american civic education especially complicated and challenging and the aim of the sim -- symposium today to take up a form of t

singer, founder of elliott associates, juan williams, journalist and fox news political analyst, diana schaubprofessor of political science at loyola college in maryland and co-editor of the new volume. our conversation will be guided by diana's two other editors and two great teachers for decades at the university of chicago and now with us in washington, amy kass at the hudson institute and leon kass the american surprise institute. without further ado, amy kass. [applause] >> thank you. n everybody hear me? at one point in his essay, theodore roosevelt asserts that americans who choose to live in europe never really become europeans, only cease becoming americans and become nothing. over a century later i a class at the university of chicago, i saw roosevelt's assertion turned upside down. st a few weeks after 9/11, on the first day of my course on human being and citizen, i began by asking the 28 eager freshman to identify themselves by name and say a few words about who they were. the following ensued. student one, "i'm a and i'm korean-american." student two, "i'm b, and i'm hispanic-am