Featured Essay

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Poverty is one of the oldest problems in the world. For much of history, it was intractable and grimly inevitable. Today,...

BY PAUL G. KENGOR “If someone calls it socialism,” said Rev. William Barber at the August meeting of the Democratic National Committee, “then we must...

TOM GOW, FREEDOM FIRST SOCIETY It is generally a strategic mistake to get caught up in disputing the pretexts for revolutionary demands.  Rather our primary concern always needs to...

JARRETT STEPMAN, HERITAGE FOUNDATION Is this the last time we can celebrate Columbus Day? A wave of cities have decided to remove the holiday from the...

LIBERTY LETTERS WITH STEVE FARRELL There is a Christian church in America that contends, as did many of our Christian forefathers, that America "is a...

THEY WERE BELIEVERS WITH STEVE FARRELL One of the great changes in thinking spawned by the American Revolution was that reason and revelation could and...

NEAL MCCLUSKEY, CATO INSTITUTE Peter Greene, an affable defender of public schooling and critic of most things “reformy,” is nonplussed: How could libertarians argue that religious...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Regardless of how you feel about immigrants entering our country across the southern border at the Rio Grande River—whether you wish...

JEFFREY A. SINGER, CATO INSTITUTE The Association of American Medical Colleges projects a severe physician shortage by the year 2032, particularly in the primary care...

LAWRENCE W. REED, FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION It never fails. A split-second after a mass shooting occurs, grandstanders and ideologues issue statements demanding new gun...

In 1776, the same year the Declaration of Independence appeared in America, Pelatiah Webster started publishing a series of essays on economic matters BY LAWRENCE...

BY SELWYN DUKE In the El Paso shooting’s wake, evident is the same wash-rinse-repeat pattern. There are the inevitable calls for gun control by demagogues...

Justin P. DePlato and Matthew M. Markulin, The Institute for Faith & Freedom An apparent new litmus test has appeared among the 2020 Democratic...

BY SELWYN DUKE We Americans are currently in a civilizational state historians William Strauss and Neil Howe would call the “Third Turning”: an unraveling. The...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON This will sound like the start of a bad joke, but please bear with me: What do Everett Dirksen, Otto von...

VIRGINIA ALLEN, THE DAILY SIGNAL Last month, Judge Reggie Walton ruled in favor of True the Vote, a conservative voting rights group that first sued...

Short history of money and attempts to control it. AMERICAN MINUTE WITH BILL FEDERER Money supply has a mixed history. Originally, wealth was measured in precious metals...

BY ALLEN WEST Two simple words, and yet, last week, they seemed to cause an ever-widening philosophical separation in these United States of America. For...

BY SELWYN DUKE “Equality” cries were cherished by feminists when they gave females entry into military academies, boardrooms and the ranks of police; prize-money parity...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Recently, I wrote an article about the removal of Kate Smith’s recording of “God Bless America” from two famous American sports venues on...

BY BOB BARR After a contentious debate between southern and northern states about how to count slaves towards the apportionment of congressional representation and taxation,...

BY RICK B. LARSEN, SUTHERLAND INSTITUTE Millennials are currently 24-38 years old, and as a voting bloc they are about to surpass Generation X and...

JOHN A. SPARKS, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES Periodically, those who do not think that the U.S. Constitution is “democratic” enough set out to repudiate...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON David Brooks of The New York Times has now jumped on the bandwagon, writing “The Case for Reparations.” The idea of paying...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Mark Trumbull, Staff Reporter The Christian Science Monitor Boston, MA 02115 Dear Mr. Trumbull, Last month, in your introductory remarks to The Christian Science Monitor...

BY BOB BARR Riley Howell was laid to rest Sunday in Waynesville, North Carolina, at a funeral service with full military honors. He was not...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON Earlier in March, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) proposed an amendment to H.R. 1—the Democrats’ ambitious attempt to “expand Americans’ access to the ballot...

BY CLARENCE CARSON One of the more amiable traits which many people have is the inclination or desire to share something good with others. If...

BY PHILIP VANDER ELST Author's note: This article was originally published in the London based Bruges Group on 17 November 2015 just before our famous...

It's the enviro-fascists versus free speech and science BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON I wrote in my previous column that environmentalists are exploiting the climate-change issue to promote an...