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Yuval Levin

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America’s 250th Isn’t Just a Birthday

Our reticence to name the civic occasion we are marking this year points to a deeper uncertainty about how to relate to American history.

by Yuval Levin via The Free Press
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on January 19, 2026

American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—and Could Again

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James Madison by Gilbert Stewart, 1821.

How the Constitution Unifies the Country

Yuval Levin urges us to take America’s greatest constitutional thinker, James Madison, as our lodestar.

by Marc Landy via Law & Liberty on June 11, 2024

Playing the Grinch at America’s 250th Birthday Party

How do we celebrate America's 250th anniversary as ICE and the Border Patrol threaten and abuse ordinary Americans?

by Jack Rakove via Washington Monthly on February 5, 2026

Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein

“A Story We Think We Know”: Ken Burns on The American Revolution

Burns and co-director Sarah Botstein discuss their six-part, 10-year labor of love, which finally makes it to PBS on November 16.

by Ken Burns, Michael Tomasky, Sarah Botstein via The New Republic on November 11, 2025

White house with a crown on it, next to Westminster Palace.

America’s King

America long ago rejected the trappings of monarchy in favor of republicanism, but many have wanted to have it both ways.

by Howe Whitman III via Law & Liberty on September 10, 2024

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