Liberty
Good Reason to Think About Rome
Casey Chalk writes for the Federalist about the Roman Empire’s enduring lessons. The year in “a word,” according to a Dec. 22 Financial Times article, is “The Roman [E]mpire.” The…
Roman Empire
period of ancient Rome following the Republic
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Democrats’ Policies Harm Children’s Lives
J.B. Shurk writes for the Federalist about the negative impact of Democratic policies on children. Americans who would sacrifice anything to protect their children may be surprised to learn that…
Law & Public Safety
A warning about the history of ‘King Mob’
Christopher Bedford of the Federalist urges readers to take seriously the threat posed by unruly mobs on American streets. For millennia, King Mob has targeted societies’ icons with varied goals…
Liberty
Lowry illuminates Latin’s lingering impact on impeachment debate
Rich Lowry of National Review Online ponders congressional Democrats’ fixation on a Latin term. If the impeachment effort isn’t taking the nation by storm, the Democrats have an answer —…
Law & Public Safety
Hong Kong and the common law
Michael Brendan Dougherty of National Review Online explores Hong Kong’s experience with the common law. When conservatives in England and America talk about their civilization as an inheritance, they often…
Liberty
Coping with a ‘crisis of complexity’
Richard Fernandez writes at PJ Media about a problem that plagues much of today’s scientific research. A map as big as the world is useless because any economical map of…
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Hanson pans the diversity fetish
Victor Davis Hanson‘s latest column at National Review Online challenges conventional wisdom about the value of “diversity.” Emphasizing diversity has been the pitfall, not the strength, of nations throughout history.…
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Enlisting Monty Python in a defense of conservatism
Charles Cooke of National Review Online has heard conservatism’s naysayers. They remind him of Reg. Reg, for those who are unfamiliar with Monty Python’s Life of Brian, is a fictional…
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Forbes attempts to make sense of Obama’s world-view
Steve Forbes attempts within the pages of the latest issue of Forbes magazine to explain what he labels as President Obama’s “perverse view of the world.” WANT TO GET a…
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A defense of Western civilization’s merits
What if the Roman Empire limited, rather than enhanced, the development of Western civilization? What if there were no “Dark Ages”? What if the Christian Church spurred, rather than stunted,…
Energy
Hillsdale speaker identifies a ‘War on the West’
The latest issue of Hillsdale College’s Imprimis features remarks from William Perry Pendley, president of the Mountain States Legal Foundation. Pendley documents what he labels a federal government “war on…
Liberty
The parallels between the fall of Rome and the United States today
There are strong parallels between the factors that led to the fall of the Roman Empire and those at work undermining the foundations of the U.S. So argues FEE president…