This is the 1960s Civil Rights Leader Who Fani Willis’ Father Called a ‘Cracker’
The father of Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis was caught in a recorded interview making several racist comments about a white politician, according to a […]
TR’s Presidential Library Comes to Life in North Dakota
Because of how much the Dakota Territory shaped the man and the president, it became clear that if ever a Theodore Roosevelt presidential library would be built, it had to be here.
Civil War 101
For Lincoln, the restoration and preservation of the Union was the chief goal of the war. All other objectives were subordinated to that one.
A Massacre of History in Colorado
The main victim in this exhibit is history itself
Octogenarians and Oligarchs
Is this cabal our best and brightest?
Tony Bennett Departs the Good Life: Great American Artist, Liberator, Civil Rights Activist
Tony Bennett, who died on July 21 at the age of 96, is known for his 1962 hit “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” […]
The Lessons of the Versailles Treaty
The Treaty of Versailles was signed in Versailles, France, on June 28, 1919. Neither the winners nor the losers of World War I were happy […]
If We Could Put a Man on the Moon . . .
It’s been 50 years since we first landed on the moon. It’s been 46 years, seven months, and four days since we last departed from […]
When ‘The Right Stuff’ Goes Wrong
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy committed the United States to put an American on the moon and return him safely to Earth by the […]
The War Over America’s Past Is Really About Its Future
The summer season has ripped off the thin scab that covered an American wound, revealing a festering disagreement about the nature and origins of the […]
Music in the 80s Sucked
In an excellent essay making the case that pop music was at its zenith in 1984, Julie Kelly writes that the era represented a patriotic […]
Up Against the Wall with Washington
Why didn’t Sir Isaac Newton, the famed English mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, invent the automobile? Newton was a clever guy. He came up with calculus, […]
Insolent Leftists Would Lock Us Up in Hamlet’s World
When I was a boy, everyone said the epitome of Shakespeare is Hamlet’s soliloquy. The soliloquy, the one from Act III, the one that poses […]
Memo to Kaepernick: Read More Frederick Douglass
Many observers were quick to correct Colin Kaepernick’s recent selective quoting from Frederick Douglass’s speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” They […]
Kaepernick, in Nike’s Big House
Colin Kaepernick is woke. He wears pig socks to protest cops, whom he reckons are modern day slave catchers, and even cosplays as Angela Davis. […]
Liberalism, Originalism, and the Constitution
No one would mistake the Supreme Court’s liberal justices for adherents to the concept of “originalism,” or the belief that one should consider—first and foremost—the […]
Calvin Coolidge: ‘If All Men Are Created Equal, That Is Final’
The following is an excerpt from Calvin Coolidge’s (lengthy) speech in Philadelphia on July 5, 1926, marking the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. […]
The Lessons of the Declaration of Independence
The colonists’ quest for independence from the British in 1776 began with a goal: “to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal […]
Hadrian’s Wisdom: Why America Needs a Wall
Nearly 1,900 years ago, Roman Emperor Hadrian built a great wall across Britain. It was 73 miles long, and divided the Roman province of Britannia […]
The American Founding’s High-Minded Purposes
James Madison is justly celebrated for his frequently stated opinion that “all power in just and free Government is derived from compact.” But Madison’s view […]