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Ideas about property and freedom from John Locke worked their way into America’s founding documents and influence the nation to this day.

The Education Department has been inundated with thousands of complaints about its plan to encourage schools to teach a race-based view of American history that opponents say is both inaccurate and racially divisive.

23 Cadets face numerous obstacles during their tenure at the U.S. Military Academy, which forces them to overcome those plights — whether personal, academic or physical — while building a character base as future military leaders. As the USMA Class of 2021 cadets inch closer to their final objective at West Point by graduating at Michie Stadium Saturday, all the firsties were required to write a reflective essay on their readiness for officership as part of the MX400 (Officership) curriculum.   After 1,045 essays were submitted, five finalists we...

23 The weekends usually mean a time to catch up on sleep and relax before the next week ahead. For nearly 1,500 cadets, staff and faculty at the U.S. Military Academy, the weekend for them meant an opportunity to participate in the grueling Norwegian Foot March over the course of several days on April 3, 11 and 25. The Norwegian Foot March, also known as Marsjmerket, is an armed forces skill badge earned after completing an 18.6-mile foot march while carrying a 25-pound rucksack in under 4.5 hours. The march was first held during World War I in 1915 to test the strength and en...

Will Biden be a transformational president? Lee Edwards History offers us a prism through which to consider the question. Presidents most often become great when tested by a great crisis such as a war or a depression. Franklin D. Roosevelt is usually ranked among our greatest presidents because his New Deal is credited with leading America out of the Great Depression and because he led the Allies to victory in World War II. Non-woke historians, however, note that U.S. unemployment was still in the double digits after six years of the New Deal. But there is no disagreement tha...