american republic

1 min read 2021-11-25 04:00:54

Samuel Francis Smith and the Song “America”

We know where, when, and how the famous song “America” (“My Country, ‘Tis of Thee”) came to be written. But what led Samuel Francis Smith,

1 min read 2021-11-21 04:00:00

The Mayflower Compact is the first real assertion of the right to self-governance in the modern Western world and one of the most important in any

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 2021-10-28 03:01:39

As we ponder the meaning of history and ethics, we must ask: How do we reach unity without conformity? What should be conserved? And exactly what is

1 min read 2021-10-21 04:00:06

We live in a time of gross lies in our public sphere. Many of the lies we tell these days involve phantom ills: racism or sexism or various

1 min read 2021-10-18 04:00:15

As American society reaches its final stages of decay, the price of denying reality will prove ever greater, awakening people to their folly and

1 min read 2021-10-14 04:00:43

We Americans must ask: Is the republic alive? Should we despair? Are things any better in A.D. 2021 than they were for Rome in 43 B.C.? It’s been

27 min read 2021-05-05 04:32:54

Prohibition had cultivated both a growing mistrust and a growing acceptance of state power. It was becoming not only a legal and political mechanism

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

5 min read 2021-04-26 04:00:27

“The False Promise of Liberal Order” and “Tomorrow, the World” provide a useful two-dose vaccine against the now-viral view that something

4 min read 2021-04-12 04:00:30

Despite controlling neither the sword nor the purse, the Supreme Court has been able to wield considerable power by in effect legislating rather

4 min read 2021-04-12 04:00:30

Despite controlling neither the sword nor the purse, the Supreme Court has been able to wield considerable power by in effect legislating rather

4 min read 2021-04-12 04:00:08

In the process of taming the wilderness of the New World by violent means, Americans absorbed and bequeathed to future generations some of the

4 min read 2021-04-12 04:00:08

In the process of taming the wilderness of the New World by violent means, Americans absorbed and bequeathed to future generations some of the

7 min read 2021-03-29 04:00:52

The lava-like drift toward not just democracy but mass democracy might one day culminate in government by plebiscite. If that’s where American