Right Living
A God-given freedom that transcends earthly existence, while simultaneously setting the terms for our lives together.
First Principles
Talkin’ ’Bout My Generation X
As with every generation, pain is an exceptional teacher.
What Changes a Culture?
Free Money Is Dangerous
Money nowadays is territory.
Boys, Girls, Guns, and Blacks
If Congress is going to discriminate against 18-21 year-olds by requiring them to jump through certain hoops to buy a gun, shouldn’t it also impose the same rules on “similarly situated” people?
The Authorities are Revolting
The old double-edged saw, “The peasants are revolting,” has been turned on its head.
My Billionaire Can Whoop Your Billionaire
The political power and influence of an Elon Musk or a Donald Trump, while superficially encouraging, is really a symptom of a flawed, poorly structured political system.
The Cost of Doing Something
The failures of the same old gun control laws should warn us away from the easy route of penalizing virtually all American gun owners who will never commit a crime with their guns.
Don’t Blame the Second Amendment
A free people must be ever vigilant against the usurpation of power and its abuse.
In the Shadow of D-Day
Joe Biden, who can’t remember D-Day but can’t wait to take your guns, should spur us to remember what happens when those with all the power have all the guns.
Learning from the Uvalde Shooting and its Political Aftermath
Don’t rely upon the police, or anyone, to do what you can and should do for yourself and whatever innocents are in your orbit. And don’t fetishize the gun.
If the Road to Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions, With What Do We Pave the Road to Heaven?
The reason to worry about the future of America and Western civilization is not that its elites are composed of people with bad intentions; it is that they are composed of people devoid of wisdom.
Because the AR-15 Can Deter a Mob
Americans deserve the chance to protect themselves from rampaging mobs and (God forbid) the government itself if tyranny arises.
How the Democrats Are Using the COVID Playbook to Seize Our Second Amendment Rights
Seizing the rifles of law abiding American citizens won’t stop criminals intent upon murdering others anymore than locking healthy Americans in their homes slowed the spread of COVID.
Guns Are Not the Problem
It’s the culture, stupid. Gun violence is the penalty for our failure to uphold a moral, functioning society.
Equality Explained
Defending the founders’ republican principles—all of them—is the best and most effective way to fight our emerging woke tyranny, which categorically rejects those principles—all of them.
Yes, They’re Coming for Your Guns
What the un-American Left really wants is to destroy the American people’s right to self-defense.
The Left’s Intellectual Inconsistency on 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.
Sandal Wearers and Sex Maniacs
Within the pages of the Guardian, I habitually encounter a species of human being bearing no resemblance to those of my working-class roots.
No Duty to Protect
After what happened in Uvalde, why on earth would anyone give up their weapons and trust to police to do anything?
Alasdair MacIntyre’s Essential Liberalism
In recoiling from the fragmentation of values that characterizes modernity, MacIntyre has presented less an alternative to the depredations of liberal individualism than an escape from its challenges.