It’s the Fourth of July. Time for another celebration of America’s truly iconic holiday celebrating the Declaration of Independence. But it should also be a day to remember the very first Fourth, a full 247 years ago — which decidedly…
Though his image still is widely recognizable, and his name adorns cities, counties, towns, and streets across the country, today’s students assuredly know more about Taylor Swift or Justin Bieber than the victorious commander of the American Revolution and the…
I remember one of my first public debates with a liberal. It was 1989. I was editor of the editorial page in my campus newspaper, The Pitt News, which was published Monday through Thursday, with a huge print circulation of…
President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was confirmed by the Senate Thursday, shocked many people with her recent confession to the Senate Judiciary Committee that she could not define the word “woman,” explaining that…
Almost everyone in the intellectual debate over the future of American conservatism these days seems to recognize that the 17th-century English philosopher John Locke is key to its resolution. At one time, Locke was the unquestioned inspiration for the ideals behind America’s Declaration…
Thomas Jefferson’s statue was recently removed from New York’s City Hall. The city’s Public Design Commission voted 8-0 to remove the statue from the City Council Chamber where it has stood since 1915 because Jefferson was “a slaveholder who owned…
The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III By Andrew Roberts (Viking, 784 pages, $32) Published on November 9. “George the Third/Ought never to have occurred./One can only wonder/At so grotesque a blunder.” This clerihew (by the…
On July 4 this year, liberal media declared independence from America’s most treasured cultural symbols. While media undermining of Independence Day itself is not new — Vox famously declared that “the American Revolution was a mistake” in 2019 — the…
Dear Left: On Independence Day, please stay home. Give America one day of respite to celebrate what you have spent the other 364 days of the year denigrating. On our national holiday, there is no greater gift that you could…
