In May 1818, James Madison rode the 25 miles from his Virginia plantation Montpelier to Charlottesville to address the recently founded Albemarle Agricultural Society. As he rose to speak, some 30 men ...
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On the cusp of its 250th birthday, America is experiencing a crisis of conscience, identity and definition. When I was a boy, there was a popular TV commercial that summed up America for my young, car ...
An Editor at Large: Speaking as a recently naturalized U.S. citizen, columnist Gerard Baker makes the case that America’s greatness far outweighs its faults, and can learn from Britain in 1977—the ...
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When I heard Austin city leaders were facing pressure to pause data center development, I felt a familiar frustration. As an oil and gas regulator, I've watched fights like this for a half-century.
Larry David is celebrating the United States’ 250 th birthday with his new HBO show, “Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America,” but he wasn’t feeling too patriotic ...
Alexis Bittar is reclaiming the American flag. So much so that the celebrity jewelry designer and filmmaker has one hanging outside the Brooklyn home he shares with his husband and their three kids.
The history of America is written in blood, civil strife, rebellion, resistance, treachery and deception. It is also written in bravery, heroism, sacrifice and slavery. America was built on the backs ...
An artist views the American flag not as a political symbol, but as one of possibility and reinvention. The author, an immigrant, believes America is unique in its focus on shared aspirations over ...
The phrase “Platonic ideal” refers to the philosopher’s conception that real life and meaning exist on an abstract spiritual plain beyond our physical existence and comprehension. You think you have ...