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An Englishman in post-revolutionary America: A Fourth of July reflection

July 3, 2025 Joseph Pearce 14

As Americans celebrate their independence from England, it is worth remembering an Englishman, later to be lionized by G. K. Chesterton, who moved to the United States in 1792, when the American nation was in […]

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Independence Day and the principles of Catholic social teaching

July 3, 2023 Dr. Christopher Shannon 18

July is the first full month of summer, a time for lazy hazy days of going on vacation, cooling off, doing nothing. For historians, it is the month when things really start to heat up, […]

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The complicated story of Catholicism, religious tolerance, and early America

November 30, 2021 James Matthew Wilson 8

For the Catholic Church, America has never been just a nation or a state. It constitutes rather a political and theological problem. That is as much the case now as it has ever been. The […]

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Joseph de Maistre, revolution, and tradition

July 5, 2019 Chilton Williamson, Jr. 3

Émile Faguet, the French author and literary critic of the second half of the 19th century, described Joseph de Maistre as “a fierce absolutist, a furious theocrat, and intransigent legitimist, apostle of a monstrous trinity […]

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Jefferson and Adams: Contentious politics that continue to resonate

July 3, 2018 Russell E. Saltzman 4

We still live with the dispute begun by Federalists and Anti-Federalists. The debates around the ratification of the Constitution are arguments that continue to define […]

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