Thoughts on an Awful Anniversary
The decision to drop the bomb was founded on the conviction that a blockade and invasion of Japan would cause massive casualties.
First Principles
The Conservative Case Against the Founding?
Not everyone who calls himself an “American conservative” can also be called a friend of the founders.
How Could the Founders Have Done Better?
In a regime of equality, excellence and superiority are allowed to thrive while the ordinary virtues of frugality, industry, piety, and fidelity are protected.
Do Not Feed the Cancer
Forget Tokyo. What did you do yesterday that made the sun shine a little more dimly in your home, or a little brighter?
Un-Lockeing the American Idea
We need to rediscover the vocabulary of the founders if we are to make a success of a new vocabulary for a new Right.
The Case for the Unconstitutionality of Abortion
For one thing, the argument isn’t new. It's partly rooted in the 14th Amendment.
The American Regime and Its Moral Ground
When the founders took up the task of framing a new Constitution, they had to draw upon those principles of law and moral truths that were there—as they had to be—before the Constitution.
Kudzu and Equality
It may be a fool’s errand to claim the same ideals as those espoused by the Left but call for one’s own interpretation of them, as the theoretical and rhetorical kudzu continues to spread.
Paleontology
If I thought the paleoconservative appeal to tradition alone were sufficient to support all the policies sketched near the beginning of this article, I would submit to it cheerfully.
The Military Plays No Part in the Constitution’s ‘Checks and Balances’
When a group of military officers gets together to conspire against the orders of the commander in chief, it is a real case of mutiny and treason.
Conservatives in Name Only
The term “CINO” may be just what we need to sort the wheat from the chaff in political philosophy in America, just as “RINO” helps us understand American party politics.
Where Have We Placed Our Faith?
Instead of worshipping at the feet of political elites and offering our own freedoms as sacrifice, we must place our faith in the almighty Creator once more.
Addressing the Corruption of Power, Not Promoting Fatalism
The advancement of technology has tended to make us less patient and less willing to take the time to consider why those vital limits to power were set down as they were in the Constitution.
Laws of Nature, Not a State of Nature
If we cannot reconcile progress with preservation, if we believe the two are irreconcilable, we cannot be a nation of Hamiltonian powers and Jeffersonian rights.
Confusion on the Right?
Wittingly or unwittingly, many voices on the Right are advancing the Progressives’ cause instead of truth, justice, and the American way.
Independence Day—or, The Fight For Jason Russell’s House
When government pushes too hard against American liberty, there can be surprising limits to its power.
The Promise of Freedom
We don’t need fuzzy platitudinous tweets about America from Republican politicians. What we need right now is what we might call “politics for adults.”
How the Declaration of Independence Birthed Our Greatest Civil Rights Movements
This July 4, let us remember the great civil rights movements that the Declaration of Independence inspired.
When Collaboration Is Capitulation
“Consensus” in the American education establishment is not a recommendation. It is a warning.
Of Rights and Laws
It wasn’t just that the colonists believed they had a right to defend their property, their speech, and every other inherent right: they believed they had an obligation to defend them.