Christopher Flannery
Christopher Flannery is a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, contributing editor of the Claremont Review of Books, and author of The American Story podcast.
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We Are All Americans
By the morning of April 9, Lee had concluded that “there is nothing left me to do but to go and see General Grant, and I would rather die a thousand deaths.”
Washington
Great men are the ambassadors of Providence sent to reveal to their fellow men their unknown selves.
O Captain, My Captain!
When Lincoln was among us, he said, “one of Plutarch’s men talked with us face to face.”
First Man of the Universe
Benjamin Franklin was a great man, not just for his time, but for all time.
American New Year
Winter has turned to spring, summer to fall, and back to winter. This cosmic new beginning inspires a kind of Napoleonic ambition.
American Christmas
Over the generations, out of many ways of celebrating or ignoring Christmas, came a recognizably American way.
Days to Remember
“No date in the long history of freedom means more to liberty-loving men ... than the fifteenth day of December 1791.”
Pearl Harbor and the Art of Peace
Next to the people themselves, the land they live on is the most fundamental and necessary material condition of political life.