In his 1955 novel “Notes of a Native Son,” author James Baldwin said: “I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” At 250, that tension still seems to define this country. To both commemorate and challenge America’s semiquincentennial birthday, the U-High Midway is asking what it truly means…

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