{"id":12816,"date":"2021-01-26T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12816"},"modified":"2021-01-25T09:56:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T17:56:31","slug":"thoughts-on-the-1776-commission-and-its-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/thoughts-on-the-1776-commission-and-its-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on the 1776 Commission and Its Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;newly formed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/the-ridiculous-attacks-on-the-1776-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">President\u2019s Advisory 1776 Commission<\/a>&nbsp;just released its report. The group was chaired by Churchill historian and Hillsdale College president Larry P. Arnn. The vice chair was Carol M. Swain, a retired professor of political science. (Full disclosure: I was a member of the commission.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The unanimously approved conclusions focused on the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the historical challenges to these founding documents, and the need for civic renewal. The 16-member commission was diverse in the widest sense of the word. It included historians, lawyers, academics, scholars, authors, former elected officials, and former public servants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether because the report was issued by a Donald Trump-appointed commission, or because the conclusions questioned the controversial and flawed&nbsp;<em>New York Times-<\/em>sponsored 1619 Project, the Left almost immediately criticized it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/01\/thoughts-on-the-1776-commission-and-its-report\/#slide-1\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The&nbsp;newly formed&nbsp;President\u2019s Advisory 1776 Commission&nbsp;just released its report. The group was chaired by Churchill historian and Hillsdale College president Larry P. Arnn. The vice chair was Carol M. Swain, a retired professor of political science. (Full disclosure: I was a member of the commission.) The unanimously approved conclusions focused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3kI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11460,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/a-reminder-of-what-binds-us\/","url_meta":{"origin":12816,"position":0},"title":"A Reminder of What Binds Us","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 19, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review In these divisive times, one constant for all Americans has been the hallowed work of the American Battle Monuments Commission, the small and sometimes unheralded federal agency created in 1923 to establish, operate, and oversee foreign cemeteries of American war dead, largely from the\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11129,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/a-response-to-kevin-williamson\/","url_meta":{"origin":12816,"position":1},"title":"A Response to Kevin Williamson","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review In the past, I have often enjoyed Kevin Williamson\u2019s essays. 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