America & History

By Judd Dunning Rare. Valuable. Precious. Blessed. Much like our remarkable constitutional republic—our first Thanksgiving, now a symbol of American gratitude—almost never happened. Gratitude is one of the highest states; it creates more goodness, more prosperity, more patriotism, more unity than almost any other emotion. Gratitude is a bedrock of our American way. We are a positive people. We focus on the good and on the things we’re grateful for—because we know just how ble

By Judd Dunning Conservatism at its highest form has never been a matter of nostalgia. It is philosophy in motion—reason disciplined by gratitude, freedom guarded by order, and faith translated into civic strength. The conservative is not a man clutching the past; he is the custodian of the permanent things, those “enduring norms of human existence” that Russell Kirk called the backbone of civilization. To conserve, properly understood, is to remember that truth is not inve

By Judd Dunning Every movement with staying power has a midpoint — that moment when you’ve been through hell, taken your licks, and found your footing. That’s where America is now. We are not back to where we were. We’re not quite where we need to be. But under Donald Trump’s renewed leadership and the people’s awakening, we are undoubtedly on our way home. — Post-COVID Reckoning: The Narrative Broke — and So Did the Workforce COVID didn’t just damage our health system. It de