Is America in a Pre-Heroic Moment?

Those Who Say We're in a Post-Heroic Age Are Wrong--Again.

It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation can be called really great unless it can sometimes rise to the heroic mood. —Theodore Roosevelt, speech before the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, January 30, 1916

Has the United States entered a “post-heroic” age?

This view has currency with st…