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The 50th Anniversary of the Bicentennial

THE FIRST FREE AMERICANS • WHAT THE NATIVES TAUGHT THE COLONISTS ABOUT FIGHTING LIKE GUERRILLAS AND LIVING WITHOUT KINGS

Founding Fusionists • WAS AMERICA FOUNDED ON LIBERAL VALUES OR RELIGIOUS VALUES? YES.

ERIC BOEHM

Q&A Afroman

The Gun That Won the Revolution • FOR CENTURIES, THE AMERICAN LONG RIFLE HAS FELLED GAME AND TYRANTS.

RONALD BAILEY

America’s Founding Drinkers

1776 WAS NOT INEVITABLE • A REASON INTERVIEW WITH JUSTICE NEIL GORSUCH

JACK NICASTRO

Disillusioned Revolutionaries • WHY DID SO MANY FOUNDERS DIE IN DESPAIR ABOUT THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT?

JESSE WALKER

‘GOVERNMENT TOTALLY ANNIHILATED’ • AS THE OLD COLONIAL REGIMES CRUMBLED AND NEW STATE GOVERNMENTS STRUGGLED TO BE BORN, HUNDREDS OF LOCAL COUNCILS AND COMMITTEES STEPPED IN.

‘All Men Are Born Free’ • THE SLAVEHOLDING FOUNDING FATHERS FELT MORE ANGST OVER SLAVERY THAN YOU MIGHT THINK.

America Was Not Founded by ‘Tariff Men’ • THE WHITE HOUSE GETS THE HISTORY OF TAXES ON TRADE BACKWARD.

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN AMERICAN • AMERICANNESS IS NOT DEFINED BY A CREED OR A BLOODLINE. IT IS A SPIRIT.

CHRISTIAN BRITSCHGI

IT’S AMERICA’S FOUNDING FAKE NEWS TERRORIST, SAMUEL ADAM

ILYA SOMIN

Edmund Burke’s America • THE PHILOSOPHER WAS HORRIFIED BY THE FRENCH REVOLUTION BUT SYMPATHETIC TO AMERICANS.

JACOB SULLUM

America’s First Drafts

REVOLUTIONARY REVIEWS

BICENTENNIAL ARCHIVES • Excerpts from Reason’s vaults

America, 250 Years Ago

JULY 4 BRICKBATS