Jeffrey Miron
The United States currently recognizes eleven federal holidays: Independence Day (1870), Washington’s Birthday (aka Presidents’ Day) (1879), Christmas (1885), New Year’s (1885), Labor Day (1894), Veterans Day (1926), Columbus Day (1937), Thanksgiving (1941), Memorial Day (1967), MLK Jr Day (1983), and Juneteenth (2021).
In so doing, the government implicitly endorses some ideas over others, so national holidays are a form of thought control. Christmas endorses Christianity;...