american founding

6 min read 2022-01-26 16:00:00

Reappraising American Goodness: A Review of McKenzie’s We the Fallen People

There has been no shortage of books over the last half-decade reexamining the histories of populism, nationalism, and race in the United States to

1 min read 2021-10-30 01:00:52

John Adams never had an optimistic view of human nature, and his experience in the Congress and abroad only deepened his suspicion that his fellow

1 min read 2021-10-26 03:00:21

Our rights as Americans can never be separated from our duties. But we must also ask, what is our liberty for? We live in an age of determinism,

15 min read 2021-04-30 03:00:02

George Washington was acutely aware that he had become a legend in his time, a true myth, and he recognized that the presidency made possible the

2 min read 2021-04-15 03:15:13

President Joe Biden's ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, characterized America as a fundamentally racist country on

3 min read 2021-04-07 04:03:00

Lawmakers in South Carolina are nearing passage of a bill that would require all public college and university students in the state to study

5 min read 2021-03-29 15:00:00

The Bible’s presence in public culture has been pervasive, featuring prominently in the script and soundtrack of the American experience.

14 min read 2021-02-22 05:00:00

George Washington, the great actor, was playing his part in a great drama, not just for Americans of his day, but for you and me. Washington, the

4 min read 2021-01-19 05:00:19

Going back to the first principles of the Founding, one finds that the Founders talked unceasingly about rights. Rights language became a critical

4 min read 2020-12-23 05:00:41

John Trumbull, who would memorialize this great event in a painting which—commissioned in 1817 by Congress—now hangs in the United States

7 min read 2020-10-12 04:00:15

Patriotic education is less about the specific curricular concepts that are featured in American history classes, and more about a philosophical

12 min read 2020-10-03 04:00:03

John Calvin’s theology, as well as his influence on the civil government of Geneva, significantly influenced the founding of the United States.

9 min read 2020-09-28 04:00:56

That it is the founding principles themselves to which we can turn to recover from the great evils of slavery, of the loss of virtue and moral

11 min read 2020-09-21 21:09:59

As unrest still rolls across the country, statues of Confederate leaders are coming down. For example, in June Mississippi retired its previous flag

6 min read 2020-09-17 04:00:20

The role Gouverneur Morris played in the Miracle at Philadelphia is one that is often cropped out of the greater American Story. However, based on