Baldrick, of Blackadder fame, a member of Team Brexit? Who knew? For the uninitiated, Blackadder is a British comedy series, starring Rowan Atkinson (of Mr. Bean fame) in the title role, as various scheming rogues through the march of history….

The brilliant scholar Lawrence Mead in several articles and an unpublished book makes the case that freedom imposes a burden that is not well understood by those who migrate to the United States where freedom is a requisite of civic…

What are more important to the health of an intellectual movement, writers and academics or investors and philanthropists? That thought occurred to me, when I was informed of the death of Chuck Brunie, the former longtime Chairman of the Board…

Sometimes Democrats say things that, unbeknownst to them, demonstrate the fundamental nature of their tyrannical beliefs far more clearly than they ever could, or would, when asked a direct question about their political philosophy. On Wednesday, Senator Chuck “Don’t get…

One of the measures of how serious a society is about personal freedom is the way in which it deals with harmless eccentrics. The city of Miami is currently failing the freedom test. The nannies and killjoys in its code…

Almost anything associated with the Cold War appears to be an anachronism these days. Today’s college graduates never saw the hammer and sickle fly over the Kremlin, the deadly wall that cut Berlin in half, or defectors leave home in search…