When North Carolina’s Fifth Provincial Congress convened in Halifax on November 12, 1776, the delegates undertook a daunting task that would define North Carolina. In just five weeks, they debated,…
Editors at National Review Online urge officials to avoid making a mistake inspired by government’s botched response to COVID-19. Public-health officials were wrong to oversell the benefits of the Covid…
Scott Winship highlights interesting survey data about Americans’ perceptions of the American dream. [F]ive definitions fell short of a majority. These included “being middle class,” “becoming rich,” “owning your own…
RALEIGH — The John Locke Foundation is excited to enter a new era on July 1, 2023, when Donald Bryson succeeds Amy O. Cooke as chief executive officer and publisher…
House Bill 98 would make long overdue changes to prohibit state and local governments, public schools, and universities from requiring Covid vaccination or discriminating against the unvaccinated, and it would…
Lower income taxes allow people to keep more of their hard-earned money and spend it on their needs. Some would argue that your money would be better spent by politicians…
Armond White offers National Review Online readers a glowing review of Van Morrison’s latest tribute to freedom. As one of the all-time great pop singers, Van Morrison uses vernacular to…
All economic activity is the result of someone’s plan. The major dispute for centuries has been over who should do the planning. Corporate welfare schemes override individuals’ right to pursue…
Jonathan Emord reminds readers at Townhall.com that the U.S. Constitution does not create democracy. Democrat leaders speak often of “democracy” in hallowed terms, but rarely, if ever, do they mention,…
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…
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…
If we tell the government its principal role is to take care of us, there will be no end to the violation of rights.