Pelatiah Webster: America’s Adam Smith and a Forgotten Founder
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...
El Paso: The Real Root Causes of Mass Shootings
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...
Save the Electoral College: The Founders Warned of an “Overbearing Majority”
Justin P. DePlato and Matthew M. Markulin, The Institute for Faith & Freedom
An apparent new litmus test has appeared among the 2020 Democratic...
The Left is Following Communism’s Playbook for Revolution
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...
Old Wisdom Applied to Current Spending Proposals
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...
This Conservative Group Fought IRS for Years. Now a Court’s Given It a Victory
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...
The Bank War: Jackson v. Biddle
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...
Presidents Come and Go … Let’s Pray the Defenders of Our American Way of...
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...
Hey, “Trans” Men in Women’s Sports: Good Luck, Fellas’ — Go for the Gold!
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...
Erasing Thomas Jefferson: Ignorance of Historical Context
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...
Census Nonsense
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,...
We are Misreading and Misleading Millennials — Badly
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...
Remaking the Senate: Hyper-Democracy Rears Its Head
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...
What’s Wrong With Reparations?
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...
Open Letter to a Journalist About His Paper’s Position on Climate Change
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...
In a Hero’s Funeral is a Lesson for Us All
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...
Tinkering With the Voting Age
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...
C.S. Lewis on Compelling People to Do Good
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...
The EU threat to democracy and liberty
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...
Climate-Change Politics – Part 3
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...
The End Game of Climate Change: Socialism – Part 2
Climate change isn't about the environment
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
I discussed in my previous column some of the scientific issues pertaining to the climate change...
The Role of Respect in Education
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
Respect for others is the key to social harmony and a functioning democracy. It is a check on willfulness and selfishness,...
“Enough to Buy Back the Product”
BY HENRY HAZLITT
Economic in One Lesson, Chapter 20
Amateur writers on economics are always asking for “just” prices and “just” wages. These nebulous conceptions of...
Rights and Non-Rights: A Simple Way to Distinguish the Two
Despite the centrality of rights in American history, it’s readily apparent today that Americans are of widely different views on what a right is,...
‘Justice’ Is the Word of the Year, and ‘Social Justice’ Is Its Orwellian Opposite
BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary has declared “justice” its “Word of the Year” for 2018, owing to a 74 percent year-over-year increase in...
Evil and God: Reflections of a Former Atheist
BY PHILIP VANDER ELST
In my early twenties, before my conversion to Christianity in 1976, I did not believe that our world offered entirely convincing...