Has the U.S. federal government ever had less legitimacy than it has right now? Kimberly Cheatle was forced out as the Secret Service director after perhaps the worst performance by an agency head in the history of Congressional testimony. Cheatle…
Let’s talk about the word “revolution.” According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, it has two meanings: one is “the action by a celestial body of going round in an orbit or elliptical course,” and the other is “a sudden, radical, or…
The Weekend Spectator with Paul and Grace is a new show featuring Paul Kengor and Grace Reilly and will release episodes every Saturday. Both having roots at Grove City College, Paul Kengor and Grace Reilly have collaborated through The Institute…
1958: July 4th Comes to Life The president of the United States — the 34th — is Dwight D. Eisenhower, the hero general from World War II. Rock and roll is still brand new, Elvis Presley the first rock star…
Mental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America’s Revolutionary Leaders By Michael Barone (Encounter Books, 234 pages, $22.77) What can geography reveal to us about the lives of America’s Founding Fathers? That would seem an odd question. One…
The Declaration of Independence was, of course, just that. It was an official declaration of independence by the “United Colonies” (upper case), as they were thus described by Thomas Jefferson, his editors John Adams and Ben Franklin, and the Congress…
My friend Daniel Greenfield, the outstanding contributor over at FrontPage Magazine, is no Pollyanna. If you’re a religious reader of Greenfield’s work, as I am, you’ll know he’s one of the most brutally honest and savage critics of the Left…
If you believe that the weaponization of the justice system is a new phenomenon in American politics, you might need to reconsider. The American Left has been challenging the Founding Fathers’ vision of the American polity for centuries. On today’s…
The most precious document in existence is the Constitution of the United States of America. This document spells out how the USA works, how the governance of the USA works, and what the rights of our citizens are and are…
