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.
The Progress of Leviathan
Trumpism is simply the inevitable result of a century-long expansion of federal authority and the centralizing of power in the US Presidency.
On Social Justice and the American Dream
It is easy to see injustice in society and to call for social justice reform. It is far harder to define what social justice looks like and what kind of reform would actually lead to it.
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.
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.
Procuring Toilet Paper with Social Capital
For most of us, relying on our economic capital or on government assistance alone to get through however long this season lasts would be devastating. We need one another. Now more than ever.
The Right To Bear Arms and Regressive Progressivism
Securing and enumerating the individual right to own and bear the means of self-defense in the US Constitution was momentous and revolutionary. Infringing on that right would constitute the winding of the clock back to a time when such rights were denied by despotic and autocratic governments.
Tyranny is Tyranny
If someone can take away your life, liberty, or property you are not free. Tyranny is tyranny, whether from a king or a bandit.
Link: On Rights
All forms of government have some sense of rights. But natural rights exist independent of government and its laws.