Ideas

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Illustration by Colin Hunter

The Moral Foundation of America

The idea that everyone has intrinsic rights to life and liberty was a radical break with millennia of human history. It’s worth preserving.

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Illustration by Colin Hunter. Sources: Heritage Images / Getty; Universal History Archive / Getty.

Whose Independence?

The question of what Jefferson meant by “all men” has defined American law and politics for too long.

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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Noam Galai / Getty.

Bari Weiss Still Thinks It’s 2020

She co-founded The Free Press as a bastion of liberalism in an illiberal time. Her arrival at CBS is paved with excuses for illiberal friends.