Who's Afraid of Religious Liberty?
Not so long ago, doubts about the ability of Jews to live and practice Judaism freely in the United States would have been dismissed as positively paranoid: relics of a bygone era when American Jews could be turned away from restaurants and country clubs ....Read More

Of Course Physical Strength Is Important to Masculinity
My piece earlier this week — noting research that college men have less physical strength than their fathers did — kicked up a bit of a hornet’s nest. I got a number of responses both on Twitter and sent to me privately that took issue with what they called (in general) my hurtful caricature of masculinity.... Read more

Federal Judge Blocks Obama’s Transgender Bathroom Order
President Obama’s transgender bathroom executive order has been blocked by a federal judge in the case of State of Texas v United States. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor sides with the plaintiffs in the case, against the President. The ruling comes less than three weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a temporary block... Read More

Judge Plays God to Ban 'Unimportant' Bible Verse
The military's highest court ruled yesterday that men and women serving in the U.S. Armed Forces can be punished for exercising their religion if judges deem the practice not religiously "important." The ruling upholds the government's criminal prosecution of a U.S. Marine for refusing to discard personal notes... Read More

A Man of Faith, Even on the Job, Even in State Government
When you meet Tim Jeffries, the first impression you get is: integrated whole. He’s a man of faith, and he takes the missionary disciple aspect of the Christian Gospels seriously. Which means he introduces himself with no hesitation about what’s most important to him... Read More

An After School Satan Club Could Be Coming to Your Kid’s Elementary School
It’s a hot summer night, and leaders of the Satanic Temple have gathered in the crimson­-walled living room of a Victorian manse in this city renowned for its witch trials in the 17th century. They’re watching a sepia-toned video, in which children dance around a maypole, a spider crawls across a clown’s face... Read More

Brave New World Should Be Campaign Issue
Over at First Things I get into how one of the most important questions of our time–how to maintain a moral biotech sector–is being ignored in this election season. Human cloning is being perfected, we are already engaging in embryonic experiments into genetic engineering, and there is a great silence from the media... Read More

1787 July 4th Oration
This speech was given by Robert Livingston in New York on July 4, 1787.
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1794 July 4th Sermon
A sermon preached by Joseph Lathrop on July 4, 1794 in Massachusetts, Lathrop uses Jeremiah 30:21 as the basis of his sermon.
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1798 July 4th Discourse
This July 4, 1798 discourse was preached by Timothy Dwight in New Haven. He uses Revelation 16:12-16 as the basis of his discourse.
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1804 July 4th Oration
Joseph Story gave this speech in Salem on July 4, 1804.
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1831 July 4th Oration
John Quincy Adams gave this speech in Quincy, MA on July 4, 1831.
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1837 July 4th Oration
This speech was given by John Quincy Adams in Newburyport, MA on July 4, 1837.
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