Dispirit of ’76 and the rise of socialism

In my 76th year of life, as our country celebrates the 250th year of its birth, I find myself remembering America’s bicentennial celebrated in 1976. I was living in Philadelphia, then, just blocks from where the Declaration of Independen…
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