America’s Pope at the Heritage Foundation
It was not Hobbes and Locke, but the Marx-Darwin-Hegel-Progressives who corrupted the founders’ legacy, replacing one form of slavery with another.
First Principles
Who Says That Chance Rules in the Affairs of Men?
Our foresight is always an adventure, practiced at the pleasure of the unpredictable.
Canada’s Assisted-Suicide Policy Body Surfing Toward America
Best to keep an eye on Canada’s “Medical Aid in Dying” policies. The American Left does—and they like
what they see.
what they see.
Recalling Santayana’s Genteel Tradition
George Santayana’s interest in philosophy was for the reality it revealed—and for the relief that it promised.
The Price of Eliminating Consequences
Magnanimity demonstrated to those harming us at home and abroad is interpreted as American weakness, if not decadence to be further exploited.
The Scots and the Founders
Remembering the importance of alienable rights, so richly articulated by the Scottish Enlightenment, would help us better understand our unalienable rights.
‘Bring Me Some New Clichés’
Leo Strauss and his student Harry Jaffa understood that once philosophical insights and political principles ossify into clichés, they are no longer meaningful.
The Libertarian-Socialist Axis
Libertarian advocacy results in half-solutions that are worse than doing nothing because, in reality, they advance the objectives of socialists.
What Are Judeo-Christian Values?
Traditionally religious Protestants, Catholics, Mormons, and Jews are aligned on almost every important social issue. Here are 10 of those values.
What’s Wrong With Nationalism?
It is a mark of piety to love the place of your birth, to prefer it above other places, to want it to be itself and not just like everywhere else.
Ordered Disobedience
When authority is an impediment.
The Soviet Erotic and Today’s Misbegotten Effort to Kill Eros
One cannot quantify sex and eros. It is a relationship that is mysterious and cannot be snuffed out by the ham-fisted attempts of ideologues to destroy it.
Why My Synagogue May Change Its Prayer for America
For the first time in American history, the United States cannot be described as "a beacon of light, liberty, and justice."
Does Inequality Make America Impossible?
To make progress, the United States needs to get out of the race business.
Anarchy, American-Style
The Left runs Oceania, and we work for their various bureaus.
Is the Second Amendment a ‘Suicide Pact’?
So says California Governor Gavin Newsom, who also has a beef with the First Amendment.
Capturing the Presidency Without a Vote
The intelligence community must remain subordinate to our elected officials or we no longer have a functioning democracy. The intelligence community hates this.
Progressivism vs. Popular Sovereignty
From the perspective of the American ruling class, the only relevant incentive is to latch onto any "emergency" fig leaf to justify "enlightened" rule, typically imposed in a top-down fashion.
Farewell to Z-Man!
Once More on the Question of Natural Right
There is no permanent solution to the political problem. And this seems to cause some to insist there are no
natural standards for truth.
natural standards for truth.
Why the ATF’s Pistol Brace Ban Is Unconstitutional
The nearly 90-year-old federal law restricting short-barreled rifles has been superceded by time and technology. It’s past time the Supreme Court took notice.