Philip Roberts is an intern with The Daily Signal. A conservative grassroots organization launched a major campaign Wednesday to rally Americans around the nation’s founding principles ahead of next ...

Two hundred forty-nine years ago, the founders of this country declared independence from a regime that served the powerful and ignored the governed. They wrote clearly and unapologetically that when ...

Matthew Spalding is the Kirby professor in constitutional government and dean of the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College and oversees the Allan P. Kirby Jr. Center for ...

As the United States marks its 249th birthday on July 4, Americans must reckon with the fact that President Donald Trump’s administration has largely abandoned the principles underpinning the ...

Progressive left and postliberal right intellectuals converge in teaching scorn for America’s founding principles. Attacking from different angles, both camps employ grossly flawed arguments to ...

Gordon Wood is probably the leading living historian of the American Founding, author of such seminal works as The Creation of the American Republic and The Radicalism of the American Revolution. In a ...

What are the most important ideals that shaped the founding of the United States? And how should we interpret and apply these values today? The answers to these questions are complex and exist in a ...

RALEIGH — Recent assassinations and attempts on the lives of politicians, commentators, and other high-profile leaders are horrifying, wreaking havoc on our political discourse. Those who commit, ...