I just discovered that our friend Roger Kimball wrote a splendid Independence Day piece honoring Presbyterian minister John Witherspoon–the only man of the cloth to sign the Declaration of Independence. Roger, a Catholic, has crafted a very generous appreciation of this largely forgotten Protestant clergyman and political thinker. (I ask readers to indulge me as I wave the Presbyterian flag on this; at a time when our denomination gets headlines primarly when officious committeemen try to devise outlandish new names for God, it’s great to be reminded that America–and civilization itself–owes a lot to those crusty old Calvinist divines.)