‘For years past I have continually been conscious of some power behind the malefactor, some deep organising power which forever stands in the way of the law, and throws its shield over the wrongdoer. Again and again in cases of…
In recent years, the Republican Party has placed significant attention on parents’ rights. Republicans have pledged to fight the political indoctrination of children in public schools, and conservative politicians across the country have pushed for school choice in their respective…
This summer, residents in Michigan voted to defund their local library following complaints by parents over the presence of books with LGBTQ themes in the children’s section. The Wall Street Journal reports that voters in rural western Michigan’s Jamestown Township eliminated…
It is a measure of America’s cultural crack-up that even modest defenses of parental rights and traditional morality generate enormous backlash from elites. What would have once been considered utterly uncontroversial — prohibiting the teaching of “sexual education” in public…
Like religion, the traditional family poses a rival authority to liberalism’s arrogant conception of the state. Consequently, liberals view religious freedom and parental authority with suspicion and often hostility. Liberals are keenly aware that the fulfillment of their statist goals…