Hillsdale Collegian

Spalding’s new book aims to explain the founding

As Americans begin to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Matthew Spalding, dean of the Van ...
The Daily Signal

What Declaration of Independence Teaches Us About Our Rights, Duties as Americans

Richard M. Reinsch II is director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation and columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also a senior writer for Law & Liberty. If we ...
Opinion

With America’s 250th in sight, these books illuminate the true spirit of the Declaration of Independence

The Latinate term for the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is “semiquincentennial,” which doesn’t roll off the tongue easily. (You can use the alternative Latinates ...
Reason

What the Declaration of Independence Said and Meant

[This year, my annual post celebrating the Fourth of July is drawn from a chapter of Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People, and from a short essay on the ...
The New Criterion

The spirit of ’76

Fronting this display is Magna Carta, represented by an eighteenth-century engraved facsimile of the 1215 document preserved ...