No, Steven Pinker, The Enlightenment Doesn’t Pit Reason Against Faith
Steven Pinker oversimplifies the Enlightenment by claiming it pits reason against faith. In fact, the Enlightenment sprung from Christian ideas of nature.
View ArticleWhy We Need The Oscars, Even Though The Show Gets Worse Every Single Year
What's bad for the Oscars really is bad for America. Movies are far more important for our sense of right and wrong than we like to admit.
View ArticleHow Big Philanthropy Helps Big Government Ruin Society
By emphasizing the importance of local knowledge and gradual reform, conservatives can play a special role in keeping philanthropy tethered to charity and to the Tocquevillian vision of associational...
View ArticleWhy Private Big Tech Bias Is Just As Bad As Government Censorship
Anyone who would worry about censorship and bias from the state should also worry when it comes from big tech companies. Here's why.
View ArticleBe Courageous And Stand Firm, America—We Do Not Kneel
Americans didn't kneel to British tyranny, Nazi fascism, or Soviet communism. We won't kneel for a collective guilt movement that's gone off the rails.
View ArticleIf We Let Big Tech Strangle The Press, Say Goodbye To Your Freedoms
Generations before Facebook or Twitter, Tocqueville warned that censoring the press would endanger the survival of freedom and democracy in America.
View ArticleThe Historical Record Shows America Was Founded Against Racism, Not To...
The Puritans' love of faith, freedom, and self-government that gave birth to America was the same spirit that gradually helped overcome racial injustice.
View ArticleInto The Unknown: The Pilgrims’ Adventurous, Risk-Taking Legacy
The inspiration to pull up stakes and strike out into the perilous unknown is a debt we owe to the Mayflower Pilgrims and first New Englanders.
View ArticleToday Is The 400th Anniversary Of The Pilgrims’ Plymouth Rock Landing. Read...
'Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for an instant, and this stone becomes famous; it is treasured by a great nation.'
View ArticleFederalism Is How Americans Have Historically Resolved Bitter Disputes
A principled defense of American federalism — even if it deprives one of a delicious policy outcome — is necessary now more than ever.
View ArticleAmericans Need To Tend Our Actual Communities, Not Virtual Ones
Civic virtue aimed at the welfare of one’s fellow citizens is a fundamental and necessary element for a well-functioning constitutional republic.
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Ukrainians Are Winning The Information War
The ability to mobilize civil society, through media in particular, can tip the scales towards victory or defeat as much as bombs and tanks.
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If You Want America To Come Back To Life, Get Yourself And Your Friends Back...
Several years ago Dan Edmunds, a diplomate of the American Psychotherapy Association, said, “One of the most destructive problems is the breakdown of community, and it is this breakdown that has often...
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Smithsonian Exhibit Reduces American Women’s History To Cheap, Ideological...
“Girlhood” reduces the history of American girlhood down to feminist activism, provoking contempt rather than pride in our nation’s legacy.
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The French Revolution Doesn’t Hold A Candle To America’s War Of Independence
July’s tale of two revolutions highlights America’s superior system of government and, most importantly, its relationship with God.
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Labor Day Is A Celebration Of American Exceptionalism, Job Creators, And Hard...
Labor Day should be recognized as the holiday that celebrates not only labor, but also the ideas, job creators, and institutions central to the flourishing of the United States and its people.
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Why Even A Corrupt Ukraine Is Worth Supporting Against Russian Aggression
The question is whether letting some U.S. aid corruptly enrich a few Ukrainians is worth it to degrade the threat of nuclear war with Russia.
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Christians Have Done The Most To Promote Liberty And Equality In America
Historian Mark David Hall’s new book, Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land, offers a corrective to an inaccurate narrative about Christianity.
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Leftists Want Direct Democracy Because It’s Easy To Manipulate The Masses
Direct democracy not only represents a threat to freedom, but it is a political order that rejects hierarchies both natural and spiritual.
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Supreme Court Strikes A Blow To Government’s Union Favoritism
Most Americans have the horse sense to distance themselves from organized labor’s foibles. The government shouldn’t gainsay them.
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