In the times that try men’s souls, sometimes the best thing we can do is stand athwart the zeitgeist and offer a principled dissent.
Link: Does the Constitution Hang by a Thread?
The US Constitution hangs by far fewer threads than it did even a few years ago. But of those threads, I will say this: there may be few, but they have the capacity to be strong.
Masks and Social-Distancing: What Would the Founders Say?
Yes, there’s the question of liberty. But, there is also the question of civic duty.
Civil Rights and Patriotism, or, Walking and Chewing gum
Anyone who tells you we have to hate America to demonstrate that Black Lives Matter is betraying the cause they purport to believe in.
The Dual Dysfunction of the Major Parties
The prudent approach of supporting the best of two alternatives fails to accomplish its purpose when both parties fall to extreme elements and instead present us with a least worst scenario.
Link: Experience, The Oracle of Truth
Often, Americans speak of the US Constitution as if it is the fountain from which political truth originates. Even those who fight stridently for constitutional orthodoxy sometimes forget that the US Constitution and the rest of America’s founding documents were just as much a climax of political thought as they were a beginning.
Perfect Bedrock – Part 2 (Where Does Order Come From?)
Can the parameters of good order be deduced through reason alone? If not, to what source of authority can society turn to?
Link: The Culture War and Federalism
Federalism is one of the few political mechanisms that benefit everyone. All sides of the political divide should be wary of allowing it to become a casualty in the ever-escalating culture war.
Rights and Responsibilities
In American society today, individual rights have been corrupted into little more than a sense of entitlement. On this Memorial Day, let us remember the moral responsibility and civic duty that are supposed to accompany our unalienable rights.