This special extended episode pairs two interconnected essays — The Inheritance They Wish They Had and The Heritage I Actually Have — to confront the counterfeit heritage movement now claiming dominion over American identity. Cord Dunneagin traces his own lineage through Plymouth survivors, Jamestown patrons, and the kings and lawmakers of medieval Wales — not as a bid for entitlement, but as a foil to the myth that ancestry confers political sovereignty.
A republic has no landlords. That was the point of the form.
First, the fantasy. Then, the facts.
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