“America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed.”
- G.K. Chesterton
Uncover
the
Ideology
We begin by giving structure and name to what has gone largely unspoken: a coherent American Ideology. Real, essential, and dying, it now finds new life through a 25-week American Ideology 101 series that reclaims a once-abandoned dissertation for a moment that desperately needs it.
Map the American Mind
Do Americans still believe in these ideas—and how deeply? This series creates a platform for meaningful exchange across partisan lines and lays the foundation for co-creating The American Ideology Index, a bold survey initiative offering both diagnosis and prognosis for a nation founded on a creed.
Restore Faith in the Idea
Reclaiming the American Ideology may be the only way to overcome the forces of extreme polarization. But ideology is not just intellectual—it is cultural, civic, and lived; a set of habits and commitments that once defined who we are and could be again.
THE MISSION
In defense of the American Ideology
what it is,
where we can find it,
and why it matters now more than ever.
Dedicated to the Memory of
Dr. Everett Carll Ladd
1937-1999