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Beach Reading for America’s 250th, by Peter Wolfgang – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Peter Wolfgang, Catholic Culture, June 26, 2026

 Peter Wolfgang is president of Family Institute of Connecticut Action, a Hartford-based advocacy organization whose mission is to encourage and strengthen the family as the foundation of society. …

 

What books do you take on vacation? Usually I pack something light for the beach. But this year my vacation ends on the Fourth of July, and this is no ordinary Independence Day. America250 marks the nation’s biggest anniversary in half a century, so I decided to bring Robert R. Reilly’s America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding. It is not light reading. But it may be essential reading.

Reilly says his book is “less about the Founding than about its intellectual provenance,” tracing “the lineage of ideas that made the United States possible.” At its heart is the contest between “the primacy of reason and the primacy of will”—the very terms, he argues, in which the American colonists understood their dispute with Britain. ….

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