Brenda Hafera

2 months ago | theamericanconservative.com | Brenda Hafera |Peter Tonguette

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... In early February, President Trump announced plans to create a “National Garden of American Heroes” featuring statues of 250 of the “greatest Americans who ever lived.” While this initiative is new, the project of commemorating great Americans has long been a fraught one. For some time, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has been leading efforts to “transform” our monuments landscape.

Jan 15, 2025 | americanmind.org | Brenda Hafera

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Jan 15, 2025 | americanmind.org | Brenda Hafera

“The Kids are Alright,” The Who once sang. But about half of American kids are far from alright—in fact, our boys are in real trouble. The statistics are jarring. Young men without both parents are more likely to spend time in prison than graduate college, according to sociologist Brad Wilcox’s Get Married. In the United States, the  for men under 45 is suicide.

Jan 9, 2025 | heritage.org | Brenda Hafera

Most Americans don’t have to strain too hard to name at least a couple of our Founding Fathers, but what about our Founding Mothers? Some might say Abigail Adams or Dolley Madison, but they’re far less likely to identify the woman who wrote a comprehensive history of the American Revolution: Mercy Otis Warren. Few women in the late 1700s were expected to even think about politics, let alone write about them, but she was more than up to the task.

Jan 8, 2025 | lawliberty.org | Brenda Hafera |Alex J. Pollock |Max Skjönsberg |Daniel Mahoney

January 8, 2025 Mercy Otis Warren stands at the head of a long tradition of freedom-minded women pursuing civic virtue. Most Americans don’t have to strain too hard to name at least a couple of our Founding Fathers, but what about our Founding Mothers? Some might say Abigail Adams or Dolley Madison, but they’re far less likely to identify the woman who wrote a comprehensive history of the American Revolution: Mercy Otis Warren.