Constant’s Liberty, Ancient and Modern
Benjamin Constant’s writing is as pertinent to our concerns today as it was in the immediate post-Napoleonic era.
First Principles
We Treat Our Dogs Better Than Our Boys
There is a kind of natural anti-mimesis when it comes to what boys see girls doing. The boy must accomplish a task that the girl does not have to accomplish.
Reflections on the Bill of Rights
Our Bill of Rights turned 229 years old this week. How should we think about it in relation to our Constitution?
The Rise of Traditionalists in a ‘Network Society’
A Q&A with Steve Turley.
Our Coddled Elites and All the Pain They Can’t Feel
Censorship of speech on social media masks the pain signals that many elites could rely on to understand the social conditions of the “Other America” they no longer wish to see.
Covenant and the Law
Pretending things are basically fine and making nice won’t cut it.
The Torah vs. the Left
Distinctions lie at the very heart of creation. The Left's war on the Judeo-Christian religions is rooted in its war against distinctions.
Trust Across the Ages
What we’re after cannot be captured in statistics: some sense of how far our practical liberty extends, protected not by policemen, penal codes, or forensic criminology but by trust in our countrymen.
How We Can Create Gaps for Freedom and Kill Our Politics Addiction
What happened to control over our lives? America was supposed to be different, so why are we controlled by a few elites?
The Amorality of the Left’s Equality Extremism
The Right must argue that defending tradition, heritage, posterity, and group customs and values is absolutely a moral good. To seek its erasure is evil.
After the Republic
The ruling class knows that whether Donald Trump succeeds or fails to overturn the course of this election is irrelevant to the seeds that have been planted in the psyche of millions of Americans.
Your Constitutional Right to Freedom of Conscience
To end the Left’s cancel culture, we must at all costs defend the freedom of conscience.
Stop Judging Christians
A letter for the differently believing.
Voters Should Have to Pass a Civics Exam
Simply put, it is too easy to vote.
The Least Dangerous Branch?
As the recent controversies over Supreme Court justices illustrate, that body — indeed the judiciary as a whole — has become far more important than the Founders intended.
A Warning from Ethiopia: Socialism Leads to Blind Murder
Will we learn from the lessons of the past and reject sacrificial revolution at its infancy or take the long, sad path of ignorant repetition?
Theocratic Leftists
The faith-based society or theocracy that the Left wants is one of secular humanism.
Liberalism Is a Dogma, Too
Religious belief in worldly things is a feature, not a bug of modern liberalism.
John Hay, Love of Country, and Our Vagabond Age
John Hay’s life offers a glimpse of what love of country looks like. If we cannot understand it, we truly are aliens and vagabonds upon the earth.
Intelligence, Feeling, and Critical Thinking
Feelers, as opposed to thinkers, can’t get beyond themselves, and far from welcoming discourse with others, they are conversation-killers.