The Deeper Implications of the Culture War

What is a man? What is a woman? What does it mean to be masculine or feminine? These seem, and are, absurd questions. Yet together with "trans-genderism," the demographic plummeting of the birth-rate and similar developments, America now finds itself in a deep cultural crisis. Which side of the barricade you’re on has become, at least to a certain degree, a significant factor in the current Presidential campaign.

But isn't there a more important question to ask ourselves? What does it mean to be a human being? And, thus, what does it mean to a citizen of a self-governing republic, a citizen of the American Republic? THIS EVENING we shall examine the life of Francis Hopkinson, an almost forgotten Founding Father of the United States. A signer of the Declaration of Independence. For Hopkinson, patriotism, poetry, music and science all flowed from a singular conception of both what it means to be human and what was being fought for in 1776.