Dropping Helen Keller From Texas Classes Shows Nationalizing Education Would Be A Disaster
We’d sink into a Chernobyl-level meltdown from the Puget Sound to the Florida Keys over which content to mandate.
The North American Martyrs Offer A Way To Atone For Historic Sins
The relationship between Europeans and the indigenous American peoples is often not reducible to the simplistic paradigm of aggressive colonizer and peaceful natives.
Here’s The Neil Armstrong Backstory Behind ‘First Man’
‘First Man’ provides a glimpse of a laconic test pilot and engineer who inconveniently became a celebrity.
Ryan Gosling Sleepwalks As Neil Armstrong In Downbeat ‘First Man’
‘First Man’ has a plot, but seems to be shot at a remove from the characters, meanders without becoming involving, and has puzzling ideas about children.
Why Resurrecting The Old Stories Of Confederates, Cowboys, And Indians Will Do America Good
The emptying of our hall of heroes is not a random thing. It is driven by Jacobins who want to replace our history with something else—a falsified, political, agitprop version
Emails Reveal High School Teachers Plotting To Hide Their Political Bias From Parents
The Left is abusing American high school education in its struggle to gain and retain political power. We only found out about this incident by accident. How many more?
What American Revolutionary Mercy Otis Warren Can Teach Us About Civility’s Contribution To Limited Government
People often point to the bitter fights of the Founding Era to demonstrate that this perniciousness is somehow endemic to American politics. This puts conservatives in a bit of a bind.
If You Think Cowboys Are A Symbol Of Racism And Sexism, You’re Ignorant
People objecting to the University of Wyoming’s cowboy ad campaign miss that there is more meaning in the cowboy stereotype than university officials seem willing to own.
What Baseball Can Teach Us About Valorizing Flawed American Heroes
The balance baseball Hall of Fame voters have struck in recognizing imperfect men with great achievements can inform how we view America’s founders.
7 Americans Recall Watching The Stunning Moment A Man First Walked On The Moon
Forty-nine years ago today, the nation watched as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon. This may have been the most American moment in history.
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Relative On Librarians’ Dismissal Of Her Work: ‘Trying To Rewrite’ History
Brian Miller’s great-grandmother was sisters with Laura’s mother, and Miller met Laura as a child. Wilder’s demotion by the top library association ‘felt like a knife in the back,’ he says.
150 Years Later, The Original Meaning Of The Fourteenth Amendment Protects Our Liberties
In a time when the Left has already reached second base with socialism, a basic understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment and what it stands for can be a powerful tool to combat that threat.
You Can’t Celebrate America’s Independence While Vilifying The Founders
The Founders were deeply flawed, but democracy and liberty are not. Let’s focus less on their failings, and more on their ideals. The Founders are for everyone, and we need them.
It’s Not Laura Ingalls Wilder Who Is Prejudiced, It’s The Librarians Smearing Her Legacy
In Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books, her family shows entirely reasonable fear plus charitable, patient treatment of people whom long experience indicates may rape and scalp them. This is the opposite of racism. It is remarkable.
Meet A Friend Of George Washington And Patrick Henry Who Fought Boldly For American Independence
Rev. Peter Muhlenberg’s was the first of the Virginia regiments ready for combat service just two months after he declared it was time for the American Revolution.
Podcast: Jay Cost Talks Hamilton, Madison, And America’s Wealthy Origin Story
Ben Domenech and Jay Cost discuss the Madison and Hamilton’s complicated relationship, close 2018 elections, and excitement from the Democratic base.
During The Era That Gave Us Memorial Day, Abraham Lincoln Explains Why The Fallen Fought
‘It is for this the struggle should be maintained, that we may not lose our birthright… The nation is worth fighting for, to secure such an inestimable jewel.’
How An American Not Named Meghan Markle Almost Became The First British Princess
Had another prince of Wales’s crush on a White House princess ended differently, the first fairy-tale royal-American wedding could have taken place two centuries ago.
Here’s Your Quick Guide To The American Founders’ Mentors
The Scottish Enlightenment was an explosion of creative intellectual energy. It arrived just in time to have a decisive influence on the American Founders.
The Bicentennial Of His Birth Is The Perfect Time To Get Better Acquainted With American Hero Frederick Douglass
Douglass called out the horrors of slavery by affirming founding principles. Now leading voices in government and culture illuminate why his ideas matter today.
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