I was recently taken aback by a lengthy piece that I read (very oddly) in The Wall Street Journal. Jacob Berger is a professor of philosophy at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He authored an article in the WSJ on…
What always amazes is that the Left has to re-learn the same lesson — over and over and over again. That lesson? Freedom and free markets — capitalism — works. Socialism — the building block of countries from Russia’s Soviet…
Before the Book of Genesis begins to tell the story of how Joseph’s brothers kidnapped and sold him, it states: “Jacob settled in the land where his father had sojourned, the land of Canaan.” The word I translate here as…
Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age By Frank H. McCourt, Jr. & Michael J. Casey (Crown, 224 pages, $18) For many Americans, it is almost impossible to imagine a world without the internet. It’s…
The primary issue that Donald Trump rode to victory on in the 2016 election was immigration. It worked against old-school conservatives of the Bush school in the primaries first, who had quietly embraced large-scale immigration as providing cheap labor necessary…
President Trump is a great man, and what’s more, a brave man. I would not ordinarily call him a political philosopher of a high order, but now I think he is. He spoke in extremely broad terms Thursday night about…
‘Can liberty survive, and how can it survive, in a democratic society?’ –Tocqueville Nineteenth century French intellectual…
Editor’s note: Jonas Greindberg, a German-based journalist who covers conservative parties in Europe, conducted an interview with Mr. Dries Van Langenhove last week after Langenhove was sentenced to one year in jail for memes found in his possession. Mr. Langenhove…
Suppose that you owned a manufacturing business for which the government prescribed certain production regulations, and suppose, further, that the government demanded you provide office space for a federal observer to monitor your operation. Finally, suppose that the government now…