In Defense of the Fourth of July ^46.1%

Jacobin - By Ryan Zickgraf - 7/4/2026, 12:32 PM

Politically Left Leaning Bias 27.5% - Negativity Bias 25.9% - Appeal to Emotion 19.2%

“I like the Fourth of July, it breathes a spirit of revolution,” said Eugene V. Debs in a 1901 Independence Day speech. The socialist firebrand was far from blindly patriotic (“I am not of those who worship the flag,” he added in the same speech), but throughout his life, Debs refused to let the American flag, the Fourth, or the... more