ACTA in the NewsCivic Education
For America’s semiquincentennial, my son and I drove from New York to Williamsburg, Virginia, to hear the Declaration of Independence read from the old Capitol — the very spot where it was proclaimed to cannon fire 250...
ACTA in the NewsPresidential Search
Acrimony with board of trustees reportedly played a role in initial decision The president of Michigan State University will no longer leave his job this summer and head to Clemson University. Instead, he will...
ACTA in the NewsPresidential Search
Michigan State University board members, donors and President Kevin Guskiewicz worked for the past month to ensure he stayed after his planned departure for Clemson University, but a faculty leader and experts say the...
Yale’s political donations showed 50-to-1 ratio in favor of Democrats over Republicans Ivy League governing boards are overwhelmingly Democratic, with about seven out of ten trustees registered as Democrats and only one in ten as a...
ACTA in the NewsCivic Education
Ignorance of America’s institutions, principles, and history weakens commitment to our nation and its future. It threatens the country as much as any foreign army. Without a knowledge of the country’s history, young people...
ACTA in the NewsCivic Education
In a desperate effort to defend a key stronghold from advancing British troops, the Continental Army dug in at Philadelphia’s Fort Mifflin in September 1777. What followed was among the most brutal sieges of...
ACTA in the NewsWestern Civilization
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of...
ACTA in the NewsCivic Education
Nearly six years ago, in the terrible summer of 2020, I published an article titled “A Declaration of Independence by a Princeton Professor.” In the first paragraph, I wrote that my family and I had “sat...
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