Thinking Critically About ‘Critical Thinking’
Reason allows us to distinguish between appearance and reality; but our reality turns out to be rooted firmly in the realm of appearance.
First Principles
The Royalist Left
From Lenin to Pol Pot to Pelosi, for the royalist Left democracy becomes the road to serfdom, not the remedy for it.
Change, Change, Change
It is time to walk like a founder and talk about a new charter of government.
Bosses? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Bosses
Enough with bosses—they might need us but we don’t need them. The bosses won’t like it but humanity will.
The Case of Alec Baldwin
In these dreadful times when American justice is poisoned by politics, justice will not be done, and Alec Baldwin will walk. But let’s not give up hope yet.
A Reply to Ken Masugi
Whether the Claremont Institute has acted prudently depends on its understanding of American politics.
Political Rights Demand Respect for Private Choices
The personal choices of free men and women, and the official actions of the government, are in David Tucker’s imagination one and the same.
For The West To Revive, Christians Must Toughen Up
If Christians reject history’s lessons—and the imperative to harden the faith urged by Gibbon and Voltaire—perhaps they’ll heed the Hebrews.
Charting Next Steps
Americans must start thinking about replacing our national government with a new form of government that can control itself, and if it cannot control itself, then at least be less dangerous.
Which United States Constitution?
The choice between the Madisonian Constitution or the Wilsonian “living constitution” is stark and pressing indeed.
The Return of Common Sense
We need to restore prudence as an intellectual virtue again in order to revive a deeper appreciation for human well-being. Common sense is due for a comeback.
Who Would Hide a Jew if Nazis Took Over America?
We have seen unquestioning obedience to authority. People who obey irrational orders and despise those who do not are precisely the type of people who didn't hide Jews.
Does Your City Hate the Second Amendment?
Blue cities are supporting a law that reserves to a privileged few the constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms.
The Republic Is Dead
As fate would have it, the time for a rediscovery of man and the restatement of a philosophy of free men is now.
Remedial Constitutionalism?
Congress cannot do the work of a real Congress, for a variety of reasons, none of which is remediable.
Our Constitutional Crisis
The apple of gold must be restored to its proper place, relative to the picture of silver. Without this restoration, our crisis of constitutionalism and all its attendant woes will continue.
The Meaning of Constitution Day
The 1776 Report detailed how slavery, fascism, communism, racism, and identity politics are antithetical America’s founding principles and ideals.
Liberalism Isn’t What it Used to Be
For writers at Salon “liberal” signifies whatever they and their circle of groupies would like it to mean and has little attachment to historical reality.
Iconoclasts and Tories
Let’s put aside our intellectual particularities for now and, with the American people, rally ’round the America the founders gave us.
Civic Education as Duty and Delight
Somehow our elites tolerate a disregard for civic education. We need to do better.