More than any other man or woman, July 4 belongs to Thomas Jefferson. As the principal author of the charter that proclaimed America's independence and the reasons that impelled it, his spirit and his words are essentially what we celebrate on this day.

That such praise is not deemed "politically correct" in some quarters and may even evoke hostility in others is not a pleasant commentary on the state of current political dialogue. Isn't it strange that evolution is accepted as natural in the biological world but often not in the realm of human thought?

A kind of intertemporal bigotry is loose in the land. It prompts the virtue-signaling self-righteous to judge people of the past against the conventions of today. Isn't it strange that evolution is accepted (to one degree or another) as natural in the biological world but often not in the realm of human thought?