The Left Fears Law-Abiding Gun Owners More Than Rioters
Leftists fear an empowered citizenry that can do things without the pre-approval of liberal bureaucrats.
First Principles
Virtue Signaling Theater at the Mouth of Hell
The hypocrite is not the person who says one thing and does another. He is the play-actor, the man or woman who puts on a show of righteousness, to fool himself first of all, because he is his own favorite audience.
The “1619 Project” Learns from Mussolini
The “1619 Project” is a genuine and instructive exercise in “fascist attitudes and activity” as described by Mussolini.
Americans Deserve Open Debate About Big Tech and Free Speech
The tech industry and its advocates may not think this debate should happen, but lawmakers certainly do.
The Pandemic Showcases Courts’ Limitations
Why won’t Michigan’s legislature—the political branch that most represents Michiganders—embrace its role in the state’s constitutional system?
Yea, Though I Walk Through The Uncanny Valley
You are being gaslit, but not by a sociopathic manipulator. Instead, the growing psychic pressure is the constricting consensus of an increasingly popular fabricated reality. You are on the business end of a casual conspiracy of complicity.
The Restart of History and the Renaissance of Realpolitik
States and their interests, both cultural and historical, to recall Charles de Gaulle, are eternal. They do not, and will never, take a backseat to ideology of any sort. Including our own.
Coronavirus Is an Opportunity to Reject Judicial Supremacy
The litigious Michigan legislature has endorsed the idea that the courts alone can save Michiganders from Governor Whitmer’s grip. This is a lie.
Is Half of the Country Crazy?
When the only seemingly possible solution is using the power of the government to crush those who disagree, it is time to rethink the entire paradigm.
The Perils of Philosophy
Self-evident truths are the foundation of common sense realism; for Thomas Reid, common sense is the human faculty which enables us to grasp self-evident truths.
The Indispensable American Family
Someone may say we ought to live in open sewers, because filth and disease are subversive; or that we ought to cut ourselves with razors, because razors are edgy. What response can you give to him? He has placed himself outside of moral reasoning entirely.
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.
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.