Enjoy Bill Moyers' For America's Sake speech delivered at NYU's Kimmel Center. Throughout this speech Moyers argues that retelling the American story drives progressive politics to common goodness. He says:

"the nation must confront the most fundamental progressive failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility--the gift we have received and the legacy we must bequeath."

That sounds a lot like the good kind of faith in public life to me.