Celebrating Columbus
Columbus Day is upon us and, like clockwork, so too is the onslaught of calumny from historical revisionists determined to besmirch the explorer’s name. The a... Read more.
Principle vs. Compromise: A Case of Throwing out the Baby with the Bathwater
Is it ever permissible to abandon one’s principles for political expediency? For many voters at a visceral level, the response is a resounding “no,” that ... Read more.
Mexico’s Injudicious Judicial Reform
Mexico’s judicial independence was dealt a major blow yesterday following the passage of a constitutional amendment on the eve of the country’s independence... Read more.
Immoderate Democracy Is a Threat to Constitutional Republicanism
In the past few years, American political discourse has increasingly conflated the ideas of democracy and constitutional republicanism, and it is not difficult ... Read more.
Rationalizing Natural Rights in an Irrational Age
The concept of God-given unalienable rights forms the basis of American political thought and the U.S. legal tradition. It is pronounced boldly in the Declarati... Read more.
Forget About the Goose and the Gander. What Is ‘Good’?
The injunction to “reimagine” existing norms is a call to revolution of the most fundamental kind. It is an epistemological reset, affecting everything from... Read more.
Whither Free Speech in the UK?
U.K. officials have social media and online speech in their crosshairs once again. This time, it’s the anti-migration protests spreading throughout the countr... Read more.