Serious proposals to fundamentally change the governance of these United States, made by unserious yet politically powerful people, are made with ever-increasing frequency: statehood for the
One of the great benefits of the university lies in the leisure for advanced study. While the tenured professor may be a dying breed, the ideal of a profession whose adherents study
What is freedom? Do we need freedom? And if so, to what extent? These are questions that have been debated for millennia. Particularly in our time, when everyone is allegedly in favor of
Occasionally, our antagonists think they have discovered the silver bullet argument in favor of "Christian socialism." One such apology recently came into my inbox. In its entirety, it read
Former U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy, D-Minn., ran for president four times, but his most memorable campaign was in 1968, where a strong insurgent showing led to the political downfall of
Every once in a while, someone online, being either sincere or sincerely mischievous, loves to ask about the status of unrecognized saints. Who is the person most likely to be saint that the
The world lost a voice for logic, liberty, and love of the U.S. Constitution when economist Walter Williams died on December 2, 2020, at the age of 84. Williams worked his way out of
Something authoritarian this way comes. Powerful forces are striving to impose a secular ethic on the entire medical professional which – in the name of “patients’ rights” – seeks to compel
Politics divides; commerce and goodwill unite. That truth has been driven home as waves of politically motivated violence have swept the nation. Ismael Hernandez observes that the underlying
Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West. David P. Deavel and Jessica Hooten Wilson, eds. University of Notre Dame Press. 2020. 392 pages. Reviewed by John Couretas
In the past year, many American cities experienced violent outbursts during and after protests led by groups such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Antifa’s united front. Their attacks still
Few people have the courage to resist a totalitarian system from within; fewer still have the intellectual and moral grounding to plant the seeds of its metamorphosis into a free and