Ahead of July 4, this week’s reading list examines the meaning and limits of American patriotism—including Martha Nussbaum’s influential 1994 forum, with responses by Anthony Appiah, Judith Butler, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Immanuel Wallerstein, and many others; Claudio Lomnitz’s lacerating dissection of Samuel Huntington’s account of American identity; essays by U.S. historians Robin D. G. Kelley, David Waldstreicher, Steven Hahn, Barbara Clark Smith, Alfred F. Young, William Hogeland, and Nikhil Pal Singh on the American Revolution and beyond; interviews with two of American empire’s fiercest critics, Noam Chomsky and Arundhati Roy; and more.