On October 13, 1775, the Second Continental Congress established the Continental Navy. How could the rebellious colonies dream of putting themselves forward as a sea power against the Royal Navy, the strongest maritime force in the world? It was another instance of the weakness that sometimes makes men audacious. Knowing that they had neither the […]
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Columbia University is trying, at least in part, to heal. Some students and faculty sincerely want to restore a sense of shared community after a year of turmoil. Others remain defiant and still steeped in the same antagonism, ideological rigidity, and anti-Semitism that poisoned campus life to begin with. The university’s latest experiment, the Listening […]
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The Democratic Party, mainstream media, leftist intelligentsia, and their activist supporters are in a full-on panic mode about the fate of “American democracy.” Not only are these self-anointed freedom warriors gravely “concerned” about the prospects of democracy under the leadership of their political opponents, disregarding that America is in fact a constitutional representative republic, they […]
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