Declaration of Independence

Jews and American Liberalism

Juliana Geran Pilon joins the podcast to discuss her new book An Idea Betrayed: Jews, Liberalism, and the American Left.

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10 Jul 2023

The Greatness of 1776

by Mark Bauerlein

Matthew Spalding joins the podcast to discuss his recent book, The 1776 Report. Continue Reading »

7 Jul 2022

How Women Made the Moral Case For Suffrage

by Erika Bachiochi

Not all the suffragists emphasized individual sovereignty—some emphasized women's duties to their families and country. Continue Reading »

26 Aug 2020

What Would a Reform Agenda Look Like?

by Robert P. George

On this 240th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence, our beloved country is badly in need of reform. Continue Reading »

4 Jul 2016

In recent decades, Abraham Lincoln’s reputation has not fared particularly well in the black community. Ebony magazine editor Lerone Bennett, Jr., famously argued that Lincoln was a proslavery white supremacist, while Julius Lester wrote that African Americans “have no reason to feel grateful to Abraham Lincoln. Rather, they should be angry at him.”

11 Apr 2016

Natural Rights, The Imago Dei, and the Moral Economy of Sex

by Matthew J. Franck

Mary Ann Glendon wrote nearly a quarter century ago that “a new form of rights talk has come into being” in contemporary America, in which rights are “presented as absolute, individual, and independent of any necessary relation to our responsibilities. Continue Reading »

24 Feb 2015

If There’s No God, Are Humans Equal?

by Christopher Kaczor

In Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality, Danielle Allen provides an informative, line-by-line, sometimes word-by-word, philosophical interpretation of the founders’ document. Allen offers the case that the Declaration of Independence is a syllogism for political equality, rather than a manifesto of unlinked assertions. “Premise 1,” she writes: Continue Reading »

7 Jan 2015

Lincoln on Judicial Despotism

by Robert P. George

After the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education ordering the desegregation of public schools in Topeka, Kansas, lawsuits promptly were brought to dismantle legally sanctioned segregation in other states. One of these was Arkansas. There, Governor Orville . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2003