It was the American Revolution, “more than any other single event,” the famed historian Gordon Wood once observed, “that made ...
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers, In my Up Wing, conservative-futurist vision, liberalism is not discarded but repurposed. Classical liberal tenets — individual liberty, market ...
It's the middle of the summer, and once more our thoughts turn to that special place in our consciousness we reserve for July 4. We will again celebrate what we have and how we got it. We may even ...
When I taught Contemporary Civilization, Columbia University’s core courses on political and moral philosophy from Plato through Freud, officially and awkwardly called “Introduction to Contemporary ...
Today, July 4, marks the 249 th birthday of the United States of America. That puts America 365 days from the big 250, a pretty good run for something as temporary-sounding as the “American Experiment ...
A rare printing of the Declaration of Independence on display at Sotheby's in New York in January. (Selcuk Acar / Anadolu via Getty Images) It’s the 249th birthday of the United States. And as ...
On June 17, AEI’s J. Joel Alicea, Yuval Levin, Gary J. Schmitt, and Adam J. White hosted a symposium examining the American Revolution’s role in shaping American constitutionalism. The first panel ...
The assassination of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University marks another grim milestone in America’s escalating cycle of political violence. From the attempts on Donald Trump’s life to the ...