The premise behind our Constitution is that we humans are capable of governing ourselves. It is we, the people, who ordain and ratify the governmental structure through the Constitution. We retain our sovereignty — even when we delegate certain powers…
Here’s a story from Ukraine from over 200 years ago. It was the eve of the Passover holiday, and for the Jews of Berditchev, as for Jews everywhere, this was the busiest day of the year. Yet with only a…
March was an important month for George Washington. He resisted the opportunity to become a military dictator in March. And he rode away from America’s presidency in March. A man of action rather than ideas, the Virginia planter turned continental…
Nearly 20 years ago, in the wake of the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, the masterful Wendell Berry wrote an impassioned essay. The “only result,” he wrote, of the wrenching confrontation, sponsored by the majority of the Senate’s Judiciary Committee, was…
Complaints about the 2016 election are rather easy to come by, no matter where one stands on the political spectrum this year. Some are legit, most are just so much whining, largely because access to the Internet and social media…
On July 4, 1826, Owen stood atop his new ideological colony in New Harmony, Indiana, the heart of the American heartland, and delivered his “Declaration of Mental Independence.” It was, in effect, an anti-Declaration of Independence, the opposite of an affirmation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, of the laws of nature and nature’s God.
