As the United States approaches its semiquincentennial celebration, Americans would do well to examine how we talk and, indeed, how we think about our national heritage. Any honest reflection must begin with an uncomfortable admission: we have largely failed to inspire young Americans with a durable sense of civic pride
I confess to a soft-spot for losers. Perhaps that results from a lifetime of following the Detroit Lions, or perhaps it arose from being a conservative on a college campus where others expected me to play the part of the Washington Generals (the team that lost to the Harlem Globetrotters
To the People of the State of New York: AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than
