As much as we love our dogs—a genuine and deep love—we know we can get another dog, but we can never get another human being after losing a child or any other human being.
Simply being human is sufficient and necessary to possess a right to life, because the worth of humans is what places a moral barrier in the way of any attempt to destroy human life.
With Roe gone, the question of whether abortion should continue would return to the states. We’ll learn from those debates who is and who isn’t truly upset about school shootings.
The State Department’s Commission on Unalienable Rights reveals an animus against natural liberties that betrays an aspiration to expand the reach of government even further.
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.
As our politics have become increasingly fractious, our politicians and political pundits have appealed more to the aesthetics of our country than to its ambitious and ennobling goals.
The recent charge that the United States was founded on slavery and racism is nothing new. It is a charge that has been leveled repeatedly—and refuted—ever since the Founding. But the struggle for freedom over tyranny and serfdom never really ends.