Bari Weiss: American Regeneration

Bari Weiss: American Regeneration

As we approach July 4, I’ve been thinking a lot about this cartoon.It appeared in this country before it was a country, in “independent media” before anyone called it that. It was the original American meme—one created more than 250 years ago, in a century when a tweet was the sound a bird makes.The now immortal image was first published on May 9, 1754, in The Pennsylvania Gazette—one of about 15 newspapers in the American colonies at the time. …