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    No Kings: An American Tradition or Bad History? 
    “No kings!” has become one of the prominent rallying cries of our time.  The slogan evokes the longstanding American aversion to monarchy—an aversion its supporters trace to our nation’s founding.  But a closer reading of the historical record tells a different and far more interesting story. In the run-up to the American Revolution, most colonial…
    Richard Lim
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    Martin Luther King’s American Dream
    Welcome to the tenth in our series “Landmark Speeches in American History.” We are celebrating America’s 250th anniversary with articles by prominent authors about how some of the greatest speeches in our history—by celebrated orators like Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King Jr.—honored the vision of our founding document, the Declaration of Independence….
    Kevin Roberts
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    The War on Columbus Was Never Really About Columbus
    Christopher Columbus is having a revival thanks to President Donald Trump and the good sense of the American people. This is a remarkable change from just a few years ago, when it seemed likely that the country was ready to purge Columbus, the Founding Fathers, and pretty much any notable figure from our past. It…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Rubio’s Rousing Athens Speech Highlights the Infrastructure Demonizing the West
    The West has lost faith in itself, embracing an ideology of mediocrity rather than its God-given inheritance of self-government, prosperity, and excellence. When Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a clarion call for the West to re-embrace its heritage, amid a backdrop of the Parthenon in Athens on Wednesday, he simultaneously indicted the universities, activist…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Tucker Carlson Is Wrong About World War II
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: The interview Tucker Carlson had with Jacob Rees-Mogg, who’s a member of Parliament. I don’t know if he’s still…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Revolutionary-Era South Carolina’s Mantra: ‘Be Cool and Do Mischief’ 
    On Feb. 9, 1776, Christopher Gadsden stood before South Carolina’s Provincial Congress in Charleston with what the congressional record called an “elegant standard,” a yellow flag bearing a rattlesnake poised to strike and four words beneath it: “DON’T TREAD ON ME”  The story of that flag takes us into a fascinating stage of South Carolina’s…
    Jim Sanderlin
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    James Madison’s Warning for the Administrative State
    James Madison never heard of the EPA, the SEC, or the FTC. But as one of the Founding Fathers, he understood the danger of allowing the same institution to make rules, enforce them, and then sit in judgment over the people accused of breaking them. In Federalist No. 47, Madison wrote that “the accumulation of…
    Michael Freund
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    Human Rights Campaign Chief Compares ICE Patrols to Lynch Mobs
    Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson Saturday compared Immigration and Customs Enforcement patrols to lynch mobs and likened current political battles over LGBTQ+ issues to the civil rights movement. Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ activist group, has sharply criticized President Donald Trump’s policies on transgender issues, including restrictions on military service for people…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Why Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 Speech About America Still Demands Attention
    Welcome to the ninth in our series “Landmark Speeches in American History.” We are celebrating America’s 250th anniversary with articles by prominent authors about how some of the greatest speeches in our history—by celebrated orators like Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King Jr.—honored the vision of our founding document, the Declaration of Independence….
    Daniel J. Mahoney
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    Victor Davis Hanson Challenges Tucker Carlson: Show Me Where I Called Hiroshima ‘Glorious’
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.  About a month ago, I talked about the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Victor Davis Hanson: What Tucker Carlson Gets Wrong About Hiroshima
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: Well, Victor, you wrote and talked about Hiroshima, and I don’t want to say the virtues of it because…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    On the Constitution’s Birthday, Honor Her Virtues
    For my birthday, my neighbors hold events listing my faults and describing how I should do better. Who am I? I’m the United States Constitution on Constitution Day at some colleges. Constitution Day is Sept. 17. Federal law requires that every college hold an educational program for students about the Constitution each year. The law doesn’t say…
    Adam Kissel
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Kennedy Treated LBJ Worse Than Biden Treated Harris
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Sami Winc: Well, Victor, I was thinking about Zachary Taylor, and then, off the top of my head, I was going,…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    A New Way to Teach Western Civilization
    This fall, Hillsdale College and Golden Thread Academic, a humanities imprint of Encounter Books, will release a new Western civilization curriculum for high school teachers. The Golden Thread Curriculum will serve as a guide for teachers who use “The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition” as textbooks. Written by professors Allen C. Guelzo…
    Malia Loock
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    Reagan’s Berlin Wall Speech Forever Changed the World
    Welcome to the eighth in our series “Landmark Speeches in American History.” We are celebrating America’s 250th anniversary with articles by prominent authors about how some of the greatest speeches in our history—by celebrated orators like Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King Jr.—honored the vision of our founding document, the Declaration of Independence….
    Craig Shirley
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    Why Liberty Requires Virtue
    A farmer can’t make his plants grow, but he can create the conditions that lead to their flourishing. A society can’t make its citizens virtuous, but it can nurture the institutions that lead to virtuous citizens. Great thinkers in Western civilization have long noted the importance of virtue. In “Politics,” Aristotle declared, “The best life,…
    Victor Joecks
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    What Trump Said to Families of 9/11 Victims
    At a 9/11 anniversary ceremony at the Pentagon, President Donald Trump paid tribute those who died 25 years ago. “We will honor their lives. We will cherish their beautiful memories, and we will protect this country and its freedoms for every future generation,” he said. “We will protect it like never before. For anyone who…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    25 Years Since 9/11
    Today, we commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Islamic terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and honor the 2,977 innocent people who were killed that day. For many of us, the details remain ingrained in our memories. We watched the tragedy unfold in real time, struggling to understand the magnitude of what we were witnessing….
    Kevin Roberts
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    Reflections on 9/11 After 25 Years
    Twenty-five years later, the images remain seared into our national memory: A brilliant September sky blackened by smoke; office papers drifting through the canyons of lower Manhattan; strangers running toward danger while thousands fled from it; and, by evening, an America stunned, grieving, and suddenly united. Sept. 11, 2001, was not merely a date on…
    Cully Stimson
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    Saddles and Satellite Radios: The Heroism of 9/11’s Immediate Response
    Only three times in American history has the United States been attacked on its home soil: during the War of 1812, on Dec. 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor, and on Sept. 11, 2001. In every case, America fought back.  With roughly a third of the American population under 25 years old and living in a…
    Mike Jernigan
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