David Tucker’s Purity Test
A critical reader tries to make sense of a historian’s sweeping assertions about the Declaration of Independence, natural right, and national conservatism.
First Principles
Finally, Rushdie
We can only hope that as a result of this shocking crime, some Westerners who’ve carefully toed the Muslim line on free speech will rediscover their voices and learn a long-overdue lesson in courage.
America Never Existed
We are in danger of losing not only the habits and institutions of republican self-government, but our very ability to remember and understand them. It will be as if America never existed.
Why Are So Many Young Americans Irreligious?
The secular brainwash is the first reason.
I Went to Church on Sunday
Everything has changed and moved radically in the wrong, hellish direction.
Why We Lost Trust in the Expert Class
Elite experts and degreed professionals massaged and warped their knowledge to serve ideological masters rather than the truth.
Neither a God Nor a Beast
Being human means realizing there is no power and certainly no other human being that can possess us unless we allow it.
The Infinity of a Single Apple Stem
Science, if you really ponder it, utterly demands God.
Libertarians Are Not Our Friends
All thinking persons know, and evidence abounds, that libertarians with anti-statist mentalities are dangerous, ideological, illusory, and impractical.
How to Save Our Democracy
Congress has abdicated and handed over its power to undemocratic institutions run by officials neither elected by nor accountable to the electorate. If we fix that, maybe we can fix America.
Let’s Bring Regulation Into the 21st Century
We wouldn’t build airplanes which contradict the laws of aerodynamics and neither should we allow government to write regulations that ignore the fundamental force of swarm intelligence.
Is America Raising a Generation of Idiots?
The principle of the idiot is self-sufficiency, self-ownership. The motive force is self-will.
On Purpose
You can’t have a good life without investing in the project.
Their Boring Declaration—and Our Glorious One
The desiccated treatment of the crucial virtue of prudence by some scholars shows why it is held in such low esteem today—as mere risk-averse circumspection.
Calvin Coolidge: ‘If All Men Are Created Equal, That Is Final’
If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it.
Won’t Somebody Please Think of Our Democracy™?
Hysterical and hyperbolic responses to the Supreme Court’s final decisions of the 2021-2022 term reveal how “strangely debased” some Americans’ understanding of democracy and government has become.
On Freedom
Put simply, freedom is the ability to act without constraint. It does not demand anything. It expects nothing.
Dobbs May Force Young Women to Confront Sexual Reality
Brainwashing women into believing their sexual nature is no different from men’s only benefited men. And men have benefited from abortion as a form of birth control.
Won’t Get Fooled Again
We don’t need the new boss. We need a change. Self-government is something we have done before, and we can do it again.
Conservative Fictions: Just Vote out the RINOs, Get a Gun, and All Will Be Well
Gun ownership and MAGA politicians alone won’t cut it. In the last analysis, we are the protectors of ourselves and our families.