The Scots and the Founders
Remembering the importance of alienable rights, so richly articulated by the Scottish Enlightenment, would help us better understand our unalienable rights.
The Founding
What Changes a Culture?
Free Money Is Dangerous
Money nowadays is territory.
The Early Republic and the Genesis of Prudent American Realism
A long-term grand strategy designed to reduce security risks to the United States while vindicating republicanism as the form of government most likely to result in human progress and liberty.
The Royalist Left Purges a Revolutionary: Thomas Jefferson
By aiming to overturn the founders’ victory, today’s leftists are engaged in an authoritarian counter-revolution. They are the new Royalists.
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.
The Project Is Launched
The ‘1619 Project’ is not just bad history, it is a danger to our national life, replacing the idea, goal, and reality of American unity with race-based obsessions.
Getting Right With the Founders
If blatant misinterpretations such as this are all that stand in the way of Claremont and the paleos making common cause, that should be easy enough to overcome.
The Tyranny of Experts
Understanding the origins of the administrative state goes a long way towards grasping how policy is really made today in American government
How Progressives Rewrote American History
Despite these modern progressives’ positions of privilege and systemic advantage, a new constitutionalist critique of progressivism prevents them from claiming final victory.
The Conservative Case Against the Founding?
Not everyone who calls himself an “American conservative” can also be called a friend of the founders.
How Could the Founders Have Done Better?
In a regime of equality, excellence and superiority are allowed to thrive while the ordinary virtues of frugality, industry, piety, and fidelity are protected.
The American Regime and Its Moral Ground
When the founders took up the task of framing a new Constitution, they had to draw upon those principles of law and moral truths that were there—as they had to be—before the Constitution.
Conservatives in Name Only
The term “CINO” may be just what we need to sort the wheat from the chaff in political philosophy in America, just as “RINO” helps us understand American party politics.
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.
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.
Four Pillars of America
What are the pillars of the American idea?
What About the Founders?
According to some critics, American conservatives are confused about rights. Perhaps these critics are confused about the founders?
Has America Changed its Mind?
Progressivism’s victories are so pervasive and so extensive that Progressivism’s changes are barely recognized.
How the Times’ 1619 Project Misses the Point
As Englishmen had become Americans, liberty and equality shifted from customs to rights, and slavery became a very peculiar institution indeed, a repellent anomaly in a world of freedom.