In her new collection of columns from the Wall Street Journal, "A Certain Idea of America" (to be published November 19 by Portfolio), Pulitzer Prize-winner Peggy Noonan writes about the history and ...

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In her new collection of columns from The Wall Street Journal, Pulitzer Prize-winner Peggy Noonan takes readers on a journey through the essence of our nation’s character. With her trademark blend of ...

Donald Trump, the Republican nominee in the most consequential presidential election since 1860, has doubled down on democratic and constitutional rejectionism. His running mate, JD Vance, abandoned ...

Over at that other Spectator, the one published in the U.K., one of their regular writers, Matthew Parris, recently published an article provocatively titled, “America is a moral idea or it is nothing ...

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Darren Walker has spent much of his life fighting inequality. From humble beginnings in rural Texas, he went on to lead one of the nation’s most powerful philanthropic institutions. Walker is now ...

What is the “idea” of America? America was not founded on a religion or on a bloodline like royalty, but on the idea that all people are created equal, and those people have certain rights that are ...

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President Joe Biden issued a farewell letter to the nation on Wednesday. That letter, as one would expect, had many lies. Just to name a few, our outgoing commander-in-chief claimed that his policies ...

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