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Jun 25 2020
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: Statue Toppling, Commercial Re-branding Follow Calls for Social Change
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A wave of calls for social change is manifesting in movements throughout the country, including efforts to overhaul products with racially-tinged branding and take down public monuments of figures with controversial histories.
Famous food products like Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben's and others have promised to
Henry A. Brechter
Jul 04 2022
Opinion
Are You an “Uncle Sam” or a “Lady Liberty”?
This Fourth of July, in parades across the country, you’ll likely see Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty together, smiling, waving, maybe holding hands. Their jaunty appearance as America’s Odd Couple is as predictable as the parades’ antique cars and marching bands. In fact, the idea of them as a twosome dates back more than a century to when Uncle Sam and (a fairly fierce looking) Lady Liberty first
Slate
Jun 28 2022
Opinion
The Contempt of the World
Thomas à Kempis, author of the 15th-century classic The Imitation of Christ, wrote that for the Christian, “it is sweet to despise the world and to serve God.” Pro-abortion activists have made it clear that the hatred runs both ways.
In the run-up to and the immediate aftermath of the Court’s decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health, pro-abortion activists have defaced Catholic
The American Conservative
Jun 02 2022
News
Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee: What to know about Britain's big royal party
Few nations have thrown a party like this.
Britain is set to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, a four-day festival of royal pageantry and public partying to honor her 70-year reign.
She is the world’s third-longest serving monarch in recorded history, the longest of any British or female sovereign. On the throne since 1952 — a time closer to the Statue of
NBC News (Online)
Sep 19 2017
News
The Strange Case of Confederate Cool Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/451486/confederate-chic-when-leftists-love-johnny-reb
Leftists love Johnnie Reb in movies and songs. But statues? Not so much.
National Review
Aug 17 2017
News
Let It Be
The best thing to do about Confederate statues is . . . nothing.
National Review
Aug 24 2017
News
The Double Standard in the Progressive War against the Dead
Much of the country has demanded the elimination of references to, and images of, people of the past — from Christopher Columbus to Robert E. Lee — who do not meet our evolving standards of probity.
National Review
Aug 21 2018
News
The Dramatic Fall of Silent Sam, UNC’s Confederate Monument
Protesters toppled the 1913 statue Monday night, making it the latest Civil War memorial to be removed either by government or by demonstrators acting on their own.
The Atlantic