Remembering the importance of alienable rights, so richly articulated by the Scottish Enlightenment, would help us better understand our unalienable rights.
Leo Strauss and his student Harry Jaffa understood that once philosophical insights and political principles ossify into clichés, they are no longer meaningful.
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.
The intelligence community must remain subordinate to our elected officials or we no longer have a functioning democracy. The intelligence community hates this.
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.
The nearly 90-year-old federal law restricting short-barreled rifles has been superceded by time and technology.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.