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.
First Principles
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.
Presumed Guilty: The Plot of the New Civics
Collective guilt is no ground for citizenship.
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.