Hugh Hewitt: America is Still the Last Best Hope

As you celebrate this 4th of July weekend, I hope you get time to slow down and relax. Enjoy the day with friends, family, and loved ones in your world. As you do, remember that even these things are the fruits of freedom, the benefits of a stable government, civilizational order. For 250 years—a …

Albert Mohler: Christianity and the American Experiment

As the nation approaches our 250th anniversary, it’s important for us to take a moment to recognize and appreciate the role that Christianity played in the foundation of the American experiment. Broadly speaking, there is simply no question that the basic worldview behind the foundation of our rep…

Ed Morrissey: America 250: Lincoln’s Insight Into America’s Soul

This week, the USA turns 250. It comes at a time when our nation has become more sharply divided than any other in living memory.   One man’s wisdom calls to us from an even more bitterly divided moment in American history. Six weeks before his assassination, Abraham Lincoln spoke to the bitter di…

Carol Platt Liebau: Our Glorious Constitution

As America celebrates its 250th birthday, it’s worth honoring our glorious Constitution—the longest-surviving written charter of national government in world history. Rarely have so few gotten so much so right. The Constitution protects our inalienable rights, reflecting the truth that our freedom…

Hugh Hewitt: The Declaration: A Gift That Needs to Be Defended

The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is approaching quickly. The document—as I often point out to my listeners—is, to quote Abraham Lincoln, an “apple of gold” protected by the “frame of silver” that is the Constitution he borrowed from Psalms there. All Americans—indeed all t…

Carol Platt Liebau: America: Through the Eyes of Our Guests

As Americans celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday, we’ve received a special and quite unexpected gift: a spontaneous outpouring of affection from the rest of the world. Visitors from across the globe are attending World Cup matches here, and many are posting videos expressing their delight with w…

Albert Mohler: Faith, Politics, and a Big Question in Texas

Just recently, Ken Paxton secured the nomination for the GOP looking to represent Texas in the US Senate. Paxton will be facing a state senator and Presbyterian seminarian James Talarico. The question is, as the New York Times put it, are Texans ready for Talarico's kind of Christianity? Ruth Grah…

Carol Platt Liebau: Elite Media's Moral Failure

A recent report issued by British Member of Parliament Rupert Lowe documents the grooming and horrific sexual abuse of as many as 250,000 young girls across England, These girls endured gang rape, brutal abuse, forced abortions and pregnancies, and even coerced Islamic conversion. And it happened …

Carol Platt Liebau: Our Declaration Giving Voice to Our Finest Aspirat

As America’s 250th birthday approaches, it’s worth taking a moment to celebrate the Declaration of Independence. Today, many Americans take for granted the idea that all people are created equal and endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights — natural rights that no government may rightfully…

Seth Leibsohn: Forgetting the Truths of Our Founders 

As we celebrate our 250th anniversary as a nation, it is worth reflecting on what got us here and has kept us going, living as we do under the longest-lasting constitution in world history. From the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution, our country’s Framers set about establishing this …