era in the history of the USA between 1890's and 1920's
Note: This is the second in a series of research briefs discussing rational basis review, a judicial doctrine that effectively shields most laws and regulations from constitutional challenge. How should a…
Adam White highlights the history of threats to judicial independence in the United States. In an anti-institutional era, does any institution face more dangerous attacks than our Constitution’s judicial branch?…
Seth Lucas writes for the Daily Signal about a significant U.S. Supreme Court victory for the Trump administration. As Americans began to prepare for Memorial Day weekend, the Supreme Court…
The North Carolina State Board of Elections has tried to illegally restrict election observers several times recently. Vagueness both in state law and in regulations increases the potential for conflict…
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,…
Joy Pullmann of the Federalist points to a core issue in the debate about what’s taught in public schools. Contempt for the kind of self-government that starts with families also…
Friedman’s ideas have helped to fuel an education revolution in North Carolina and across the country. Choice empowers parents to make educational decisions, challenges monopolies, and calls out bureaucracies. Choice…
Can you imagine being the kind of person who actually wants to make poor people poorer, deliberately, having convinced yourself it'll make them so poor they'll choose "properly"?
People are rightly horrified by this news out of Virginia that a doctor performed hysterectomies on women without their consent. But last century, forced involuntary sterilization was official state policy…
The Constitution and Its Enemies This week, JLF’s Jon Guze published an opinion piece in Carolina Journal for Constitution Day 2019. Guze’s piece focused on the principles inherent in the…
The title of this piece pays homage to Karl Popper’s great work of political philosophy, The Open Society and Its Enemies. Popper wrote the book during the Second World War in…
Jonah Goldberg writes at National Review Online about Democratic candidates’ approach to the 2020 presidential election. In the 1920 presidential election, Warren Harding won in a landslide by promising a…