Which brings us back to why diversity matters. The same diversity that makes it necessary to have and to sustain a unifying cultural core demands that we make the core less monochromatic, more inclusive, and continuously relevant for contemporary life. A list for cultural literacy, like the Constitution, is not an antiquarian’s specimen to be left untouched. It is an evolving document, amendable and ever subject to reinterpretation. We need a list made new with new blood. We are such as a list.