On July 15, the National Park Service hung new interpretive signs at the President’s House Site in Independence Park, where George Washington lived as president while Philadelphia was the nation’s capital. This is a major development in the battle between those who want to portray America’s history in a traditional manner and woke activists who depict our history as one of oppressors versus the oppressed, recasting most American heroes as oppressors.

John Ondrasik couldn’t stomach what was happening in his neighborhood. After the horrifying Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, his usually quiet community in Thousand Oaks, Calif., erupted. In the early aftermath of the attacks, Ondrasik would often drive by a street corner near his house where dueling Israel-Hamas war protests were raging every day.