“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Or do we? At the end of a long, bitter political year, shall we take a look? The Founding Fathers’ abstract commitment to equality — reinforced by…

In his September 6 article “All Men Are Created Equal,” Shmuel Klatzkin contends that when the Founders declared “All men are created equal,” they meant that “[w]e are equally granted the rights to life, to liberty, and to property and are…

Before the Declaration of Independence enumerates the basic human rights that are unalienable, it states that “All men are created equal.” As a British critic of that time put it, that does not seem to be the truth in the…

During the ’30s and ’40s, a number of different people and institutions went around the U.S., and occasionally outside of it, seeking to record the voices and stories of people who had been slaves in America. The fruit of their…

The Constitution sets out a way to have an effective government under which the citizens are still sovereign and their liberties are protected. Government only has the power the citizens agree to confer upon it. Basic liberties remain unalienable —…

Now is the time of the biblical holiday of Shavu’ot, translated literally as the Holiday of Weeks, coming as it does 49 days — a week of weeks — after Passover. For millennia, this holiday has been celebrated as the…

We now know why Nancy Pelosi delayed submitting the articles of her Stillborn Impeachment. Her delay, her obstruction of Congress, her abuse of power, had not made much sense. But then we divined that she simply was waiting for the…