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America at 250
Teaching Immigrants the Bill of Rights
My students crossed oceans to become U.S. citizens, but now they say America is taking away their rights. I wanted to show them otherwise—so I needed to…
Larissa Phillips
Great Americans: Niall Ferguson on Henry Kissinger’s Very American Life
In what other country could a penniless Jewish refugee become the secretary of state?
Niall Ferguson
Why We Love This Country
Bari Weiss on risk. Nellie Bowles on air-conditioning. Douglas Murray on our vast wilderness. And more.
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Caitlin Flanagan: The Indivisible America
I first pledged allegiance to America at a time of raging war and political violence. People said the nation would unravel, which was—and is—a juvenile…
Caitlin Flanagan
Great Americans, Chosen by You
As our countdown to July 4 nears its end, we handed the pen to our readers.
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Neil Gorsuch: The Heroes of 1776
A Supreme Court justice remembers the signers, soldiers, farmers, fifers, spies, and messengers who made the American Revolution—and reflects on our…
Neil Gorsuch and Janie Nitze
Great Americans: Frederick Douglass Believed in America More Than America
The most famous Independence Day address in history is also the most misunderstood. The former slave wasn’t attacking the founders—he was holding…
David A. Price
This Week in American History: The Man Who Argued Against Independence
Two hundred fifty years ago this week, John Dickinson made the best case against independence. Then he led troops to defend it.
Jonathan Horn
Great Americans: David Mamet on America’s First Pop Poet
Forget Walt Whitman. America’s greatest bard wrote songs.
David Mamet
Great Americans: The Man Who Put Evil on Trial
Robert H. Jackson grew up pitching hay in upstate New York and became the most morally serious jurist America has ever produced. Today, the America that…
Matthew Walther
Great Americans: Stephen Sondheim, Comic Genius
His musicals draw a direct line between the slapstick comedy of vaudeville and the ambivalence of high modernism—and they could only have grown out of…
Scott Wheeler
Great Americans: Muhammad Ali Walked the Walk
He was the greatest heavyweight who ever lived. But his most courageous fights had nothing to do with boxing.
Peter Richmond
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