“Cultures are held together by the stories they tell about themselves, and America is struggling to find a new national story, one that can acknowledge past injustices without becoming defined by them. The old all-or-nothing morality tale of Good America…
While most spend the Fourth of July celebrating our great nation’s history, the ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s took the holiday to blast the United States for existing on “stolen land.” This 4th of July, it's high time we…
We’re probably overdue here at The American Spectator to give due recognition to Trump-appointed federal Judge Terry Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana. It’s Doughty’s courtroom from which come a disproportionate number of rulings that breathe life into the…
This past April, I found myself lamenting the continued loss of America’s greatest generation, heartbroken by the news of the passing of Ken Potts, one of the two remaining Pearl Harbor survivors serving aboard the USS Arizona on that fateful…
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…
O say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming; And…
It was inevitable that in the midst of a full-bore attempt to reorder America in accordance with social-justice objectives, America’s left-leaning mainstream media would commemorate Independence Day by trying to shoot down absolutely everything that makes Americans love their country….
There was, over the weekend amid a cacophony of media resistance to the formerly unifying celebration of America’s Independence Day, one of the most amateurish and ridiculous cartoons ever produced. It came courtesy of Communist China’s Xinhua News Agency, a…
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…