We are in the 250th year of America. Of course, on July 4, 2026, we will celebrate the birth of the nation, because two-and-a-half centuries earlier to the day, 56 men in the 2nd Continental Congress in Philadelphia unanimously agreed by voice vote to accept the final wording of the Declaration of Independence.

Our nation’s birth certificate notes famously that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights. The “right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

 But since that time, anti-Christian ideologies---most notably communism---have arisen, declaring there is no Creator. And ultimately, what have they given us? Death, tyranny, and the pursuit of the border (to flee).

 One of my favorite indictments of communism came from two former “fellow travelers.” Former communist Eugene Fox-Genovese, who, along with his wife Elizabeth, had been the editor of Marxist Perspectives.

 When the Soviet Union finally imploded, Eugene told interviewer Frederica Mathewes-Green in National Review (2/24/1997): “When it all collapsed, the question was, after seventy years, what do we have to show for it? Especially when it became clear that, even on a basic level, the system didn’t deliver the goods, the one thing it was supposed to do. So what we had to show for it was tens of millions of corpses.”

A quote attributed to Winston Churchill says, “Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth. Socialism is the equal........

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