PRE-ORLANDO HISTORY AND THE POST-ORLANDO FUTURE
Black Americans needed to be armed in order to protect themselves throughout American history. Can those lessons help as we respond to the Orlando massacre?
Speaking to the Living & the Dead: Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address offers timeless lessons of how to think about the dead, and the living, in the midst of terribly sad loss.
The Comedy and Tragedy of Lincoln’s Inaugural Addresses
This week marks the 150th anniversary of one of the most striking, peculiar, and somber of all presidential speeches: Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, delivered March 4, 1865, etched forever on the wall of the Lincoln Memorial.
Harry Victor Jaffa, R.I.P.
Professor Harry Jaffa has died. Born October 7, 1918, he was in the 96th year of life on Earth, a life of mind that was grounded in and yet extended far beyond Earthly limitations and concerns.
The Smithsonian, Slavery, and Jefferson
Many try to knock down the reputation of Jefferson over the subject of slavery. But they miss what is most important.
This Fourth, Honor Our Founders’ Vision of Small Government
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the Declaration of Independence, which was approved on July 4, 1776, by the Continental Congress, is the mere fact that it exists.