Balancing order and liberty is only possible through deliberative process of grounding our politics and personal lives to shared historical experiences, norms, and institutions.
Link: What Are Constitutional Values?
The US Constitution doesn’t exist in a vacuum. There are strong ideological and philosophical underpinnings behind its provisions and framework.
What About Limited Government?
In a contest between nationalists and progressives, the founding vision is no where to be found.
Perfect Bedrock – Part 3 (Legislating Morality)
The conservative recognizes God’s law as the foundation for all good things, but also understands humanity’s imperfect nature would corrupt any attempt to build heaven on earth as a government project.
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.
The Marginal Drift of the Republican Party
While many members of the GOP still see themselves as conservative, the party’s tone and direction has severely drifted into the realm of populist nationalism as it has been willing to abandon core traditional tenets of conservative orthodoxy.
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.