At 250, it's worth celebrating the fact that the American Revolution got it right—while other countries' revolutions devolved into chaos and bloodshed.
1971—In an opinion by the jurisprudentially rudderless Chief Justice Warren Burger, the Supreme Court in Lemon v. Kurtzman concocts an ahistorical and highly malleable test for Establishment Clause violations. Under...
Watch the reaction to the primaries in New York last week and you will hear a word that would have ended a campaign a generation ago: socialism. Candidates now say it with pride. Commentators warn, accurately, that the platform beneath it, abolishing borders, defunding the police, seizing private property, is something far more radical than […]
As America 250 celebrations begin across the country, people will gather to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial. In doing so, we celebrate July 4, 1776 — the moment the great American experiment was conceived. Notice what we do not celebrate. We do not mark America’s birthday from the day its government was formed, the day the […]