We recently had the honor of attending a naturalization ceremony at the John F Kennedy Library in Boston, bearing witness to the 200+ newest Americans from 59 countries.  Frank shared his own astonishing, classically American story with his fellow immigrants in a moving ceremony that could lead to only one conclusion (video, transcript here). 

All native-born sons and daughters of liberty should attend at least one such event, we believe, to remind ourselves of what this nation really means, and has meant, since the first of us arrived on Jamestown's uncertain shores, the world's biggest dreamers coming from all over the earth to the first and only country founded on ideas and ideals. At the same time, our posts this month focused on another time-honored, more ambi-guous element of American culture, our love affair with guns, as we sought light at the end of the barrel...


Guns or Mental Health?
At the heart of one of our country's most contentious issues, riddled with deceptions, is a very false choice...Read More...


Guns And Butter
A closer look at the culture that reaches for its revolver reveals why advocates are so confident there's no end to the violence, and why we have to prove them wrong...Read More...