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Television’s boundary-smashing pioneer turns 100

Norman Lear reached his 100th birthday this week, happily surrounded by his large family. That’s a remarkable achievement, but the real story here is not that Lear turned 100 but that he changed the world. He ranks among the most significant forces o ...

August 29, 2022

“Unyielding determination and extraordinary heroism”

Today marks 246 years of the American struggle for independence. Though most people refer to the national holiday as “the Fourth of July,” it is formally named Independence Day. Whatever you call it, the day celebrates the greatest single moment of p ...

August 4, 2022

The Supreme Court strikes down Roe and Casey

“This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” You know the words from Psalm 118:24, and those words are true every day. But doxology is surely right on this day, June 24, 2022, when the Supreme Court of the United States stru ...

July 24, 2022

The New Left and the radical transformation of America

If you want to understand the ideological controversies behind today’s headlines, you need to look to the past—and to one specific event that took place exactly 60 years ago today. On June 15, 1962, a group of activist college students associated wit ...

July 15, 2022

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