First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country Thomas E. Ricks (Harper, 416 pages, $23) The next time I start a college, I’d like to hire Thomas E. Ricks as the…
“The Silencing Fathers,” editorial cartoon by Patrick Cross for The American Spectator, January 15, 2021.
America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding By Robert R. Reilly (Ignatius Press, 366 pages, $27.95) The American people have lost their common understanding of the Founding of the nation, specifically the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The…
On Sunday, a statue of Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York, was damaged after being toppled from its pedestal. The statue, which stood in Maplewood Park, was vandalized on the 168th anniversary of Douglass’ famous Independence Day speech, in which…
To our betters in the American ruling class: Just a note to say thanks for giving us a much-needed lesson in the wisdom of our Founding Fathers, who were not shy at all in admonishing us to be wary of…
One of the most important goals of the Constitutional Convention was to establish a strong chief executive who would nonetheless not be a king. Nowhere is that balance between concentrated power and republican restraint on government more exposed than in…
The impeachment proceedings give us evidence once again of the genius of the Framers of the American Constitution and of the English constitutionalists whose thought they embraced and developed. Constitutionalism is the alternative to basing government on a master idea….
An alarming trend circulated Twitter last week: people are licking unpurchased products and returning them to the shelves. A tweet with over 13 million views shows a nine-second video of a woman grazing her tongue across the full width of…
O L-rd, our G-d in Heaven, On this 243rd anniversary of our declaring independence from tyranny and launching the greatest human experiment in world history, we stand together before you on this beautiful day that You created — and made…