American Insights

Lincoln’s Lyceum Address  Abraham Lincoln was not yet 29 years-old when he stood before the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois, on Saturday, January 27,...

Good ol’ girl network?

I see buried in the political mentionings of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that Our High Priestess in Charge has appointed the wife of a known...

Stamp Act?

Have you seen the Notice of Jury Summons letter for the county? What I find strange is the envelope that they send with the...

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 The Mighty Endeavor On Wednesday, June 5, 1944, the president spoke to the American people through a common and comforting medium, the fireside chat. “Yesterday,”...

No need to feel ‘ambient’ about starvation in Gaza

Naomi Klein wrote a recent column in The Guardian about a protest speech at the Academy Awards by Jonathan Glazer, who was accepting the...

American Insights

The Right to Resist Born at Cape Cod and educated at Harvard, the Reverend Samuel West was a patriot. But above all, he was a...

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Rescuing the Experiment  As the snow fell at Mount Vernon in March 1785, George Washington was deeply concerned. Two years after the Treaty of Paris...

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American Insights

Lincoln at Independence Hall The president-elect reached Philadelphia at 4 p.m. on Thursday, February 21, 1861. In response to warm greetings, Abraham Lincoln told a...

American Insights

The Lessons of The Federalist On Saturday, October 27, 1787, the first of eighty-five essays under the pseudonym “Publius” appeared in the New York Independent...