Presumed Guilty: The Plot of the New Civics
Collective guilt is no ground for citizenship.
First Principles
Conservatives Should Give the New Civics Roadmap a Fair Chance
Decades of the obstruction-only strategy have left Americans ignorant and polarized; it’s time for a constructive alternative.
Thank You For Smoking
By shuffling off early, we smokers are doing the ingrates a small favor. You can live as long as you like, as long as you don’t like living.
Counterfeit Civics
“Educating for American Democracy” is the return of Common Core under a new label, this time applied to history and civics. America can only restore its civics education by rejecting EAD.
The Moral and Religious Case Against Unconditional Love
If people are loved no matter how immorally they act, love becomes the one thing in life that is completely divorced from morality. Unconditional love makes love amoral.
Grievance and Forgiveness or Civil Strife
Let us have no foolishness about this: those who peddle “white fragility” and “overcoming whiteness” are only selling hate and resentment. It is a recipe for civil war and dissolution.
Four Pillars of America
What are the pillars of the American idea?
Why I Need an AR-15
A man disarmed by his government is not a citizen—he’s a subject.
Peritus Parasitus Wants Its Host Alive But Not Healthy
How an ever-growing incompetent, ideologically driven expert class keeps us servile, stunted, confused, and ignorant.
What About the Founders?
According to some critics, American conservatives are confused about rights. Perhaps these critics are confused about the founders?
The New Secession Crisis
The Democrats have already left the Union.
Red Lines
The Constitution invites us—and politics compels us—to consider redrawing state and local borders.
Central and Eastern Europe Help Show the Path Forward
As the post-Trump American Right continues to cohere and slowly finds itself, it should look to the likes of modern-day Poland and Hungary for some concrete pointers.
True Federalism Honors the States’ Civil Court Systems
Johnson & Johnson wants the Supreme Court to overturn a perfectly legitimate state court verdict. It's nothing short of an attack on our nation’s constitutionally protected principles of federalism.
Individualism and the Protection of Innocents
The decent must transform their psyches and focus their wills if they are to become the dangerous folks that they need to become to neutralize the indecent and dangerous.
Socialists Are Children
Caring about the whole world is a fancy way of caring only about oneself.
The Middle East Dispute Is About Religion, Not Land
The reason for decades of Palestinian-Arab rejections of a state of their own is that it would mean a Jewish state in the Middle East would still exist.
A Hard But Simple Way to Detoxify American Politics
Unless Americans can learn to give up our resentments, we will continue to indulge our compulsive, addictive rage, which eventually will destroy us.
A Forgotten Piety
We should honor our forebears for what they bequeathed to us, and squirm a little, because we would be hard put to say what we are leaving for our children, supposing that we have any.
Theocratic Wishful Thinking
It's difficult to see how the Middle Ages produced a better political regime than the supposedly defective work of the American founders.