Celebrating an annual Founding Night would remind our communities that only an awake citizenry can preserve the principles that offer the blessings of liberty to all Americans. Continue Reading »
Mark Bauerlein joins R. R. Reno to discuss the complicated legacy of Abraham Lincoln. Continue Reading »
A national flag in a church is not a sign of idolatry, but a reminder to the faithful to remember the specific magistrate we pray for. Continue Reading »
Alexander Riley and Mark Bauerlein join R. R. Reno to talk about Thanksgiving. Continue Reading »
As the Declaration of Independence affirms, we never walk alone, but in the care of the God who gave us life and liberty at the same time. Continue Reading »
I, for one, mourn the death of the old civil religion. Continue Reading »
It is fanaticism, America’s fanaticism, that the historian Walter McDougall blames when he considers the strategic advantages America has squandered since . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s one thing for the American political regime to value Christian churches because they help supply the moral requisites for sustaining the regime; for churches themselves to conceive of their purpose in this way is quite another thing. Continue Reading »
All Americans are Whigs, distinguished only by their more-liberal or more-conservative Whiggery. Continue Reading »
From all appearances, it is now back in style to be critical of American individualism. Indeed, that critique has never gone entirely out of style, and for very good reasons. But views on these matters also seem to follow cycles which, if not of Schlesingerian predictability, are nevertheless . . . . Continue Reading »
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