July 4
Here’s how you can celebrate America’s 250th birthday
July 4, 2026, is just days away. It’s the semiquincentennial celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which marked the birth of our country 250 years ago. In recent months, we have used a variety of…
This July 4, celebrate more than just fireworks
What follows is one of the great “Did You Knows” of history. Two of America’s Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, both died on July 4, 1826 — 50 years after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. At…
Trump’s 250th birthday concert plans fall apart
Jeffrey Blehar of National Review Online assesses the Trump administration’s blunders when planning to celebrate America’s 250th birthday. I remember when a friend of mine, back in the fall of 2024, ran down the list of…
Treating America’s 250th anniversary as more than birthday
Yuval Levin outlines concerns about vague descriptions of the nation’s 250th anniversary. On December 31, The Washington Post carried the headline “Washington Monument illuminated on New Year’s Eve to mark country’s 250th.”…
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