Started in Slavery, Founded in Freedom: 1619 vs. 1776
The United States of America was indeed started in slavery, but it was founded in freedom.
First Principles
The Pulitzer Prize for Tabloid History
Nikole Hannah-Jones and the New York Times peddled bogus history as fact. Instead of being repudiated, they just won the most prestigious award in journalism.
Dare To Be a Daniel
The remedy for this state of affairs comes from people once again taking charge of their own lives.
Freedom, If You Can Keep It
It is we, America’s citizens, who ultimately bear responsibility for how our leadership handles this crisis—that is what government by the people, for the people, and of the people means.
Big Tech, Privacy, and Power
The power of Big Tech has been growing slowly, and in a way that many of us have accommodated as a necessary infiltration. But the scope of that power—and its costs to the culture we have ordered—have been less transparent.
Will Consciousness of Death Remind Americans to Value Life?
In the 103 years since the last comparable pandemic, our cultural relationship with life and death has changed.
The Land of the ‘Free’ and the Home of Shelter-in-Place Orders
Americans should not be complacent, nor should they allow panic or fear to lead them to acquiesce to unreasonable restrictions on constitutionally guaranteed liberties.
A New American Civics Portal
While the Real Clear Foundation’s project will not shy away from the injustices that have taken place throughout our nation’s history—including slavery and racism—those will be depicted rightly as departures from America’s founding principles.
Why the Double Standard With Hungary?
What matters to transnational progressives is not “government by the consent of the governed,” but the elite consensus developed and refined in unelected judicial-administrative bureaucracies.
Millennials and Zoomers: Socialism Will Ruin Your Life
The reality is that there are a few, extremely powerful people, set to benefit, who want to dismantle a civilization that is the culmination of millennia of the world’s best minds—a distillation of the heights of human glory and wisdom.
More Speech, Not Less
Perhaps it’s time for American companies to uphold the spirit of the First Amendment, especially when lives are at stake.
What Is Really Fueling Wuhan Virus Hysteria?
The Wuhan virus has taught people that spiritual maladies can translate into physical maladies. A society comprised of so many individuals lacking community, faith, and reason will succumb all too easily to hysteria and nihilism.
Can a State District Attorney Prosecute the President?
The Constitution provides that the two houses of the national legislative power, which are directly dependent on and accountable to the people and to the states, should deal with any criminality of a president.
Shaking Hands Is Vital to American National Character
Dr. Fauci’s view, that to avoid infecting others in the future, the handshake should disappear as a social custom, privileges mere life at the expense of the good life and further undermines American civic life by ending a custom that directs us towards others and away from ourselves.
The Soullessness of a Technocrat
Experts and technocrats lack the experience, the wisdom, and the real political authority to make the kind of broad decisions that should be guiding us in a crisis.
The Expectations Abyss
On our side of the abyss, the 16-year-old boy is dying slowly of intellectual asphyxiation in school and online. On that side of the abyss, the biggest manufacturer of women’s clothing in Cleveland is advertising for a likely lad to come and do office work, with high hopes set forth for a well-remunerated career.
Maybe Nature Shouldn’t Be Worshipped After All
If the COVID-19 virus destroys the foolish veneration of nature and leads more people, especially the young, to a new respect for the Judeo-Christian worldview, it might be the one silver lining in this catastrophe.
Is Nothing Sacred?
We have a duty to preserve our earthly lives, but not at all costs. This is true both for individuals and for nations. We cannot help but notice the eagerness with which some leftists have embraced the shutdown of churches.
Tocqueville’s Lessons in a Time of Pandemic
As the crisis continues, and in the aftermath, the activity of the citizens that Alexis de Tocqueville described so well in his book must always include assessing how well their local and state governments have prepared for ordinary and extraordinary events.
Experts and Statesmen in the Time of Coronavirus
The war against COVID-19 puts the choice between expertise and common sense front and center. Are we to be ruled by statesmen or experts?