American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
Miranda Devine writes for the New York Post about a disturbing feature of a major federal institution. If you wondered how communism has grabbed a foothold in the United States…
What a difference two years can make. I’m talking about the two years between 1774 and 1776, as North Carolinians — as well as other American colonists — shifted from…
Introduction North Carolinians are worried about crime, and with good reason. Despite recent declines, crime rates remain higher than they were before the crime wave that began in 2014, and…
The right to individual liberty is the foundation of Western civilization; without it, Western culture ceases to exist. Individual liberties, such as the right to produce and consume ideas, are…
This week, the National Association of Scholars and Freedom in Education released the Franklin Standards, model academic content standards designed to restore rigorous education in the hard sciences for K–12…
Eyal Yakoby writes for the Washington Free Beacon about one Ivy League school’s experience with anti-Israel zealots. The University of Pennsylvania, founded in 1740, has long been a bastion of…
On Sunday, the Senate provided the IRS with $80 billion in funding as part of the $750 billion “Inflation Reduction Act.” Many are worried that this staggering windfall, including $45.6…
Nate Hochman writes for National Review Online about those who are scared by the prospect of life returning to normal. Ben Franklin’s famous remonstrance that “those who would give up…
Arthur Milikh writes for the Federalist that speech controls based on identity politics could have drastic negative long-term impacts. Much evidence suggests that freedom of speech may be banned in…
Joy Pullmann writes for the Federalist about a major shift needed within the nation’s public schools. President Trump is bringing some attention to the connections between this summer’s riots, the…
Thomas Jefferson, right? It depends. At the time of the adoption of the Declaration of Indpendence by the 2nd Continental Congress in 1776, Jefferson was not recognized as the author.…
Peter Hasson of the Daily Caller highlights the latest example of the push to airbrush history. Dallas Independent School District included schools named after three of America’s Founding Fathers on…