Parental Authority Is the Basis of Civilization
When parents don't rule the home, chaos will rule society. And chaos always breeds tyranny.
First Principles
Constitution Day Blues
If we want to make Constitution Day great again, we need to recommit to the right of consent of the governed and get back to amending our charter in due course.
What Does Fidelity to Our Founding Principles Require Today?
If historicism is false, then the American system can be lost. Tyranny can recur. But do conservatives see this?
American Church
America is no longer like that place where old Frenchmen gathered on a frigid Sunday morning to pray. It is, here and there, like the church with its head cut off but still regretting the operation.
Federalism in Name Only Undermines Liberty at Home and Peace Abroad
The states must be restored to their proper place
in the federal system.
in the federal system.
Celebrating America’s Constitution to Defend It
Responding violently to the current illegitimate exercise of power would unwittingly lend support to those who are destroying the constitutional order. There is a better way.
The True Soul of America
The threat to the soul of our nation is real and palpable. Its source is not, however, the one Joe Biden identified.
Cognitive Dissonance
Truth plays second fiddle to the need to achieve the desired outcome.
Do You Have a DP?
Ronald Reagan knew who he was, who made the world, who created order and freedom in it, and, especially after the attempted assassination, that God had a distinct plan for his own life.
The Last Great Briton
Queen Elizabeth was greater than a monarch.
An America First Family Policy
Instead of pouring money into other countries or hiring 87,000 new, armed IRS agents to kick down the doors of the American middle class, we should look at funding and strengthening the family.
Socialism Was Never Great
Not even Mikhail Gorbachev could fix the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
When Culture Celebrated Men and Their Search for God
There once was respect for the third choice men faced between having a family and staying a kid: the pursuit of God.
Government Explained
The Supreme Court ruined America. Here’s how.
The American Tower of Babel
Reasonable voices tend to be suppressed because mobs will always be louder.
A Reminder About the Moral Difference Between the Christian and Muslim Worlds at This Time
Western elites in academia, media, politics and the business world—in short, everywhere—are moral fools.
Love, Actually
Missing from many discussions of the attack on masculinity and what can be done to rescue it, is any recognition of a deeper humanity and the love that is required to sustain it.
Deus Ex Machina
Religion may be where we find some idea of heaven. But we are here. Let’s make the most of it.
Rushdie’s Right to Write Is Worth My Dying For
Freedom of thought is what makes everything else possible. Surrender is not an option.
David Tucker’s Purity Test
A critical reader tries to make sense of a historian’s sweeping assertions about the Declaration of Independence, natural right, and national conservatism.