As our nation celebrates its 250th anniversary, much discussion surrounds the people, actions, and motivations that made America’s founding possible. Once the Revolutionary War was won, our Founders had to…
Daniel Greenfield writes for Front Page Magazine about a major problem for European nations. “A Small European Nation Has a Big Explosions Problem,” a New York Times story recently reported.…
Eric Levitz at New York Magazine claims the American Dream is being killed. He blames three policy decisions by which “we let” wages fall, prices climb, and the social contract…
Open support for socialism and for policies that resemble fascism ought to concern anyone interested in limited government. Rachel Lu writes for the Federalist about ways to steer the debate…
The latest issue of Hillsdale College’s Imprimis features Cal State-San Bernardino political science professor Edward J. Erler‘s analysis of the current national debate over gun rights. Erler delves into some…
I’ve struggled with this for a long time, but this morning I think I figured out what the word “racist” means these days. It is somebody who believes in order…
If you?ve wondered why a group committed to limited government, personal responsibility, and free markets would name itself after a 17th-century British philosopher, you?ll get an inkling from Matthew Spalding?s…
Buncombe County was zoned tonight on a second reading of the proposed ordinance. Only Bill Stanley voted against the measure. No public comment was taken, but unlike the first reading,…
In Plato’s Dialogues he records a conversation between Socrates, in prison awaiting execution, and his follower Crites, who urges him to accept a ransom and exile instead. Socrates replies with…
Thanks, Karen, for the comment. As to the question, we obviously don?t have time today to get heavily into the state-funded education debate (given the other debate coming up at…
In his most recent reply to Erik Root re civil unions, John Hood invoked the secular Kantian maxim that we are commanded by reason to treat a rational being as…