Do you recall that before the First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia, Samuel Adams—cautious about having to collaborate with men of different Christian denominations—announced a declaration of disassociation? Anyone who would not embrace Congregationalism of the sort Adams favored was to be disinvited from that momentous gathering, and they were to be further humiliated in
Ponder a reality quite different from the America of your youth. The new version is a quiet, cold, orderly place, with approved causes and very dire consequences for anyone who opposes them. Your son is eager for a military career. He has his eyes on West Point, but if he’s going to get there, he
Tyranny gets more efficient, and subtle, with time. Technology and its capacity to surround us in group-think groom us to shuffle meekly to the back of the bus, to put our heads down, and keep our opinions to ourselves. If you’ve got any relationship to any of the intersectional oppression classes (male, white,
We may have reached the point where not having a Facebook or a Twitter account is something like not having a Social Security number—with this ominous difference: a faceless identity-studies major within the bowels of a tech company can take your accounts away from you forever. I understand that the number of people
Believe it or not, in 2019 America, a public entity has asked me not to show my face in my own home on my own property. As a consequence of my having violated progressive-think in the areas of race, gun rights, gender identification, and political preference (I voted for the guy who won),
My days as an American historian may be numbered. For the better part of 40 years, my extended family has featured American “living history” on our 760-acre apple farm in Oak Glen, California. When my wife and I built our Georgian inspired home on the farm in 1994, we originally hoped to offer
