Political Commentary & Opinion

PHILADELPHIA—Progressives were whipped into quite the frenzy over the decision by Moms for Liberty, a parental rights group, to hold its Joyful Warriors National Summit right here in the Birthplace of America.  Outrage over the decision by Philadelphia Marriott Downtown to host Moms for Liberty’s annual conference and the Museum of the American Revolution’s decision…

The Independence Day season is a time to ask a hard question. Could the Americans of today have won the Revolutionary War—and would they even have wanted to fight it? Our leaders have plenty to say about freedom, though none say it as well as Thomas Jefferson did in the Declaration of Independence. Yet no…

President Joe Biden, the Biden grifting conglomerate, the Department of Justice, and the FBI—under its fourth consecutive weaponized director—are in danger of subverting the American system of law. They are in various ways undermining the tradition of self-reported income tax computation and voluntary compliance. Our tax institutions, of course, are based on the real deterrence…

Over the last several decades, a growing number of Americans have abandoned their faith — usually Christianity — to join the ranks of the nonreligious. These “Nones” describe themselves as atheists, agnostics or “nothing in particular.” Some may shrug at this, but you don’t have to be religious to know that this shift doesn’t bode…

The American Revolution served as a test to see if the 13 colonies could come together to “identity as a people, as a nation,” Richard Reinsch says. The question after the war was “had they actually become in effect one people and no longer 13 separate colonies or even 13 separate states?” After the war,…

It’s common for Americans on July 4th to read and discuss the Declaration of Independence, and to reflect on its principles and ideas. Those principles and ideas are often attributed solely — though wrongly — to Thomas Jefferson, the primary author of the draft of the Declaration.  Jefferson’s draft was modified in two stages: First,…

Many Americans at the time didn’t think it was possible to defeat a military power as great as Britain at the start of the Revolutionary War, according to Paul Moreno. “I think just about any historian looking backwards would say, ‘Yeah, the odds were certainly very overwhelmingly against the Colonists,’” says Moreno, a professor of…

“Extreme heat kills more people in the United States than any other weather hazard.” That’s the first claim in a Washington Post piece warning about the deadly summer heat—and it is almost certainly false. Similar warnings about the deadly weather appear in virtually every mainstream media outlet. First off, the only reason “extreme” temperature kills…

If we want to conserve the American nation, then we must begin with the Declaration of Independence. We should be aware of the richness of this document and what it teaches us about our rights and duties as Americans. Contained within it is a clear statement about the principles of politics, lawful government, the self-governing…

Is the Fourth of July a holiday? It is, for most Americans, a day off work. For some, it may even be an occasion for a trip to the beach or the mountains. But is it a holiday, or feast day, in the traditional sense of the word? Is it a holy day? In his…

The American Medical Association recently passed a series of resolutions in the name of diversity, equity and inclusion that highlight how elite, professional organizations have been deeply compromised by ideology. A report by National Review on Monday noted that the AMA, which accredits medical schools and has enormous power over the medical profession, passed a…

I’m a white writing professor, and apparently, that’s a problem. That was the unmistakable message sent to me at Pennsylvania State University—and that’s why I’m suing the school. In November 2020, nearly half a year after George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis, I was subjected to a  video titled “White Teachers Are a Problem” for a monthly professional…

It was a normal Wednesday commute, crawling across the 14th Street Bridge with thousands of other frustrated D.C. drivers — until out the corner of my eye, I saw the Metro glide across the tracks next to us. There, suspended above the Potomac, were eight cars — all wrapped in transgender and rainbow flags — headed into…