This year’s 250th anniversary of America’s independence is a good time to reflect on what a miraculous achievement it was for 13 sparsely populated colonies to defeat the British Empire in battle and ...

An appreciation of the Constitution’s role in fashioning the American republic must begin with the American Revolution. More precisely, the impetus for the Revolution. The literature of the period ...

What gives anyone — much less a mere newspaper columnist — a reason to ask such an auspicious question on the 250th birthday celebration of America? It comes from the same hopeful fear that led ...

Let’s talk about the American Republic.