William Penn was baptized in All Hallows by the Tower in London on October 23, 1644, as the son of William and Margaret Penn. His father would become an Admiral under Charles II. Raised an Anglican, he attended Christ Church…
The protests that sprang up in the wake of George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis seemed like spontaneous outpourings of grief and anger. They weren’t entirely. Though many who joined their ranks may have been moved by outrage at the images…
Hard-left progressives are telling anybody who will listen that the 2020 riots and pandemic have handed them the opportunity they’ve always needed to transform America. What they want is a revolution “in the minds of the people,” not unlike the…
The New York Times’ 1619 Project has aimed at nothing less than a revolutionary re-interpretation of the entirety of U.S. history, “re-centering” African-Americans as the sole banner-carriers of America’s principles, even as they have been ruthlessly smashed down, enslaved and obliterated…
Why is it that Black Lives Matter “martyrs” are almost all individuals with criminal records who were killed or seriously injured as they resisted arrest? One would think that if the narrative of a massive “systemic racism” problem plaguing the…
In American civic and political life, nearly everyone is a champion of liberty, but not everyone means the same thing by that term. We hold several conflicting ideas about liberty, though we are usually unaware of that fact. This lack…
When people and organizations throw money at identity politics, do they know that the causes they support conflict with their purported goals? Black Lives Matter (BLM) cloaks itself in garb of justice and morality. By its very name, well-intentioned people are compelled…
Portland has an anarchy problem. By another name, Portland has a Ted Wheeler problem. For several years the city has been subject to multiple protests—really, it’s somewhat ongoing there—that turn violent. This summer has been the ultimate example: 55 consecutive…
In August, America added nearly 1.4 million new jobs according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly Employment Situation Report, in line with the consensus forecast. The unemployment rate fell by 1.8 percentage points to 8.4 percent, the second largest…
Is Democrats’ Biden bubble strategy about to burst? By keeping Biden away from the public, Democrats have compressed the race into a two-month sprint with no margin for error. Like Aesop’s fable about the tortoise and the hare, Democrats may find Biden…
It’s tempting to attribute Joe Biden’s plummeting poll numbers in key battleground states to his dilatory denunciation of the riots that still ravage their Democrat-run cities. However, the campaign’s fatal flaw is more subtle than Biden’s tacit approval of mob…
Browsing Reddit, I’ll often come across political posts, and polls from various sub-reddits on the main page, advertising that such a percentage of voters feel such and such way about an individual. Today, I came across a quick heading that…
