Forty-Five Years in America
Today is the 45th anniversary of the Somin family's arrival in America.
Today is the 45th anniversary of the Somin family's arrival in America.
How Americans ought to think about our founding principles.
The ballooning of government has 'crowded out’ institutions of civil society, says AEI’s Howard Husock.
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The Constitution was intended to preserve state sovereignty, not create an all-powerful central government.
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Adam Conover and President Barack Obama want to unruin the federal government. But they’re not really willing to truly consider that it’s too big and too wasteful.
June 6 is not only the anniversary of D-Day, but also of the Somin family's arrival in America, back in 1979. This post reprints my reflections on that milestone, which I hope remain relevant today.
A listing with links to all the posts in the series.
The Eighth post in the Volokh Conspiracy symposium on "Our American Story: The Search for a Shared National Narrative" (ed. by Joshua Claybourn).
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Somin family's arrival in America.
The seventh post in the Volokh Conspiracy symposium on "Our American Story: The Search for a Shared National Narrative" (ed. by Joshua Claybourn).
The sixth post in the Volokh Conspiracy symposium on "Our American Story: The Search for a Shared National Narrative" (ed. by Joshua Claybourn).
The fifth post in the Volokh Conspiracy symposium on "Our American Story: The Search for a Shared National Narrative" (ed. by Joshua Claybourn).
The fourth post in the Volokh Conspiracy symposium on "Our American Story: The Search for a Shared National Narrative" (ed. by Joshua Claybourn).
The third post in the Volokh Conspiracy symposium on "Our American Story: The Search for a Shared National Narrative" (ed. by Joshua Claybourn).
The second post in the Volokh Conspiracy symposium on "Our American Story: The Search for a Shared National Narrative" (ed. by Joshua Claybourn).
The symposium will include posts by contributors to this new book on what makes America and its history distinctive.
Values are important. But so is factual knowledge about public policy. In some ways, the significance of values actually makes the problem of voter ignorance more pressing, not less so.
The religion this church administers is Americanism, a species of nationalism.
American values are a bottom-up, not top-down, affair
Food historian Rachel Laudan on why we never add truffles to our turkeys.
But they are bromides typical of vacuous mainstream politics.
"Our body politic is itself an aging boomer looking back upon his glory days," argues Yuval Levin in his new book.
Their hyphen makes them appreciate America in a way that natives can't
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