This piece is in response to Glenn Ellmers' essay "Politics Should Be Contentious," part of a symposium on "I, Citizen: A Blueprint for Reclaiming American Self-Governance"
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In recent years political combatants have taken to hurling back and forth a particular aspersion with increasing frequency: ‘un-American
Combatants within our nation’s...
The following essay is excerpted from "I, Citizen: A Blueprint for Reclaiming American Self-Governance". This is Part 1 in a symposium that seeks to answer the question posed...
To understand what we have to do, we must understand what we once were. What the Founders constructed during those sweltering summer weeks in Philadelphia was something...