PRESENTS
SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT
A SUNDAY AFTERNOON NEWSLETTER
“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.” —H. W. Longfellow
First Things authors reflect on patriotism and the historical oddity that was American independence.
JULY 2010 ● BY JOE CARTER
THE PATRIOT'S ASTERISKCountry and principle were one and the same.
JULY 2013 ● BY BRANDON WATSON
SELF-EVIDENT TRUTHS AND AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
Alleged self-evident truths are worthless without the meaning of the terms.
OCTOBER 2011 ● BY MATTHEW J. FRANCK
HOW TO MISUNDERSTAND YOUR OWN COUNTRY
Of course the Declaration of Independence was illegal. That was the whole point.
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