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What We Should Remember on Martin Luther King Day: Judge People by Their Character, Not Skin Color

Edwin Locke | 15 January 2012
What should we remember on Martin Luther King Day? In his "I Have a Dream" speech Dr. King said: "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

What is the Meaning of New Year's?

Scott McConnell | 1 January 2012
The meaning of most holidays is clear: Valentine's Day celebrates romance; July Fourth, independence; Thanksgiving, productivity; Christmas, good will toward men. The meaning of New Year's Day--the world's most celebrated holiday--is not so clear. On this day, many people remember last year's achievements and failures and look forward to the promise of a new year, of a new beginning. But this celebration and reflection is the result of more than an accident of the calendar. New Year's has a deeper significance. What is it?
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Christmas Should be More Commercial

Leonard Peikoff | 7 December 2011
Christmas as we celebrate it today is a 19th-century American invention. The freedom and prosperity of post-Civil War America created the happiest nation in history. The result was the desire to celebrate, to revel in the goods and pleasures of life on earth.

America is a Monument to Reason, not Faith

Edward Cline | 7 October 2010
On the dangers of the Tea Party being commandeered by religionists.

Excused Horrors: Not Nazi, But Stalinist and Maoist

Walter Williams | 19 November 2009
Why are the horrors of Nazism so well known and widely condemned, but not those of socialism and communism?

American Idea

Walter Williams | 22 October 2009
What accounts for what some have called American exceptionalism?

Let's Take Back Columbus Day

Thomas Bowden | 8 October 2009
This modern view of Columbus represents an unjust attack upon both our country and the civilization that made it possible. Western civilization did not originate slavery, racism, warfare, or disease--but with America as its exemplar, that civilization created the antidotes. How? By means of a set of core ideas that set Western civilization apart from all others: reason and individualism.

Elites and Tyrants: The Fruits of "Social Justice"

Walter Williams | 7 October 2009
It just turns out last century's notables in acquiring powerful central government, in the name of social justice, were Hitler, Stalin, Mao, but the struggle for social justice isn't over yet, and other suitors of this dubious distinction are waiting in the wings.

Some Thoughts on HBO's "John Adams"

Edward Cline | 1 November 2008
The paramount value of HBO's "John Adams" is that it approaches the origins of the American Revolution in terms of dramatizing the fundamental reasons why it happened through the vehicle of John Adams' thoughts and political career.
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Columbus Day: A Time to Celebrate

Michael Berliner | 10 October 2008
The attacks on Christopher Columbus are ominous, because the actual target is Western civilization.
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