Re-Making the American Dream

David Vaught

Musings on the Elites

I remember often hearing my Uncle Frank Ackerman use the phrase, “common sense.”   He used it when he was frustrated at some statement, practice, or event that in his estimation defied “common sense.” My hypothesis here is that “dirt farmers,” as Uncle Frank sometimes called himself, front-line workers of every kind, teachers, healthcare workers, first responders, and the entire group of grassroots…

Where did our Liberty Come From?

America’s Revolutionary Mind is a detailed history about the self-evident truths in the Declaration of Independence.  It explores how they came to be part of the American ideal in the period before Thomas Jefferson Included them in the Declaration of Independence, and how they then roused the patriots to action in the Revolutionary War. Its author, a Professor of political science at…