Liberty
Good Riddance to John Kerry
Editors at Issues and Insights offer a less-than-warm message to John Kerry upon learning of his departure from the Biden administration. In a city overflowing with useless people, agencies and…
Civil society
Liberty
Left’s Intimidation Tactics Harm Civil Society
Editors at the Washington Examiner highlight the potential long-term negative impact of the political left’s current incivility. After a California man was charged with attempting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice…
Freedom Focus
Freedom Focus
Building a Conservative Vision for Education
If conservatives want to win the public debate over education, they must articulate a principled vision. A vision based on civil society, freedom to define the purpose of education, and…
Freedom Focus
Freedom Focus
Why We Should Be Thankful for the Freedom to Gather Together
If politics-first socialists were somehow to succeed in subjugating our associations to the whims of the State, it's hard to estimate how much we would lose, so we must be…
Freedom Focus
Freedom Focus
Freedom Requires “Laws,” Not “Legislation”
Because legislation is often based merely on a temporally prevailing preference of a majority of legislators and not on the lengthy process of evolving societal customs, legislation becomes arbitrary and…
Education
New Carolina Journal Online Features
Donna King reports for Carolina Journal Online on Gov. Roy Cooper and Winston-Salem officials addressing mental health and gun issues after a shooting at a high school. Charles Fain Lehman’s…
Liberty
Why it’s important to cherish the many things in life above politics
Especially because politics tends toward division, it's best to keep it a small part of life so that we can enjoy richer interactions with more people in our communities. Limited…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Lawsuit protection in a reopened economy
Dan McLaughlin explains at National Review Online why the revival of the American economy requires a key change to the legal system. What will it take to reopen the U.S.…
Liberty
Needed: personal community and role models
David French, who joined Jonah Goldberg and Steve Hayes to create the recently launched Dispatch is ” convinced that the more we politicize the crisis [in community] rather than personalize it…
Liberty
Socialists value power more than equality
Michael Brendan Dougherty of National Review Online takes aim at a key pillar of socialism. The vanguard of intellectuals and elected officials who call themselves socialists is still small. But…
Education
Worried About Dirty National Parks During Funding Standoff? Then Clean Up After Yourself
Sometimes we forget that if we look in the mirror, we will find common-sense solutions to problems — solutions that don’t rely on government. Case in point: As the funding…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Why charitable contributions are tax deductible
One of the currently fashionable complaints about charitable and philanthropic giving of even left-leaning billionaires like Jeff Bezos is that the money does nothing to help the poor or reduce…