Political Philosophy
Cop: I’d Love to “Bang down Your Door and Come for Your Gun”
BY SELWYN DUKE
How would you feel if a police officer you knew for 20 years told you that if an order was issued to...
The Prospect for Freedom: Can the U.S. Sustain Its Experiment in Self-Government?
LIBERTY LETTERS
OS GUINNESS, HERITAGE FOUNDATION
Abstract
In establishing a free republic, the Founders had to tackle three major tasks. The first task was winning freedom—the objective...
A Rebirth of Liberty
Individual Liberty in the Crucible of History, Part 6
CLARENCE B. CARSON, IDEAS ON LIBERTY
But Surely, I will be told, even if a rebirth of...
Joseph Story, the Natural Law, and Modern Jurisprudence
DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN, HERITAGE FOUNDATION
Abstract
As a natural law thinker, Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story believed that human nature is inherent and unchangeable. Story wrote...
Immigration and National Survival
BY SELWYN DUKE
When pondering our obsession with immigration, I’m reminded of how people in the ridiculous dystopian film Idiocracy were watering their crops...
Three Fundamentals as to Why I Oppose Gun Control
BY STEVE FARRELL
I am firmly opposed to the President's unconstitutional and dangerous-to-liberty gun grab, whether they be accomplished through the front door of Congress,...
Mortimer J. Adler: The Good Life and the Good Society
BY MORTIMER J. ADLER, PH.D.
Politics is sometimes regarded as the sovereign or controlling discipline in the practical order -- the order of action. It...
Some Thoughts on Justice – Mortimer J. Adler
BY MORTIMER J. ADLER, PH.D.
With regard to the idea of justice, the central and predominant controversy consists in a three-sided dispute. There are three...
Is This Freedom? – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Daily Dabble in the Classics, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this...
That Peaceable Front for Unprincipled Power
Daily Dabble in the Classics, Edmund Burke
Kings are ambitious; the nobility haughty; and the populace tumultuous and ungovernable. Each party, however in appearance peaceable,...
Bankston—Jonathan Israel’s, “Radical Enlightenment”
Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650-1750
BY CARL L. BANKSTON III
By the end of the European middle ages, a Christianized version of Aristotelian philosophy...
Edmund Burke on the ‘Unfittest Person on Earth’
Daily Dabble in the Classics, Edmund Burke
A powerful voice on the other side of the Atlantic, yet on this side so far as his...