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Christianity, Christmas and Western Civilization

By Carson Holloway: Though Christmas is a religious holiday, secularists should appreciate its great contribution to Western Civilization: the lesson that all men are equal in their fundamental human dignity. [E]ven Nietzsche, among Christianity’s…

Sailing on the Ship of Fools

Carson Holloway discusses Tucker Carlson’s book Ship of Fools: The values America’s elites cherish are not the incontestable truth of things, and they may even run counter to the deeper truths of American politics…

Liberalism, Originalism, and the Constitution

By Carson Holloway: Anyone who studies the early history of the American Republic can see that originalism is not some novel invention of modern conservatives but a long-established and venerable approach to constitutional interpretation….

Renouncing Fatalism: Trump and Tocqueville in Poland

By Carson Holloway: Trump’s formulation, in contrast, holds that goodness will prevail because the good will exert themselves.

Study: Church Attendance is Trending Down

In a new study published by the research organization Barna Group, church attendance trends around the country were analyzed: A trusted measure of religiosity over the decades has been church attendance and, for the most part,…

Judicial Supremacy: Not in the U.S. Constitution, Not the Intention of the Founding Fathers

First up are a couple of excerpts and a list of links to articles worth reading on the topic of judicial supremacy Below that are just a few links to articles on the topic…

Moderation and the Preservation of Democracy

By Carson Holloway: Preserving democratic freedom requires prudence and true moderation that acknowledges the complex conditions on which freedom depends.

Collaborative Greatness: The Lesson of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton

By Carson Holloway: Their alliance forged our nation, and we will need similar alliances to preserve it and ensure its flourishing.

How Christianity Helped Create Our American Democracy

Here’s a good example of how Christians have failed in the information war — so few people understand what Carson Holloway explains: Alexis de Tocqueville, in his masterful work, “Democracy in America,” taught that religion…

The National Bank: An Early Lesson in Constitutional Fidelity

By Carson Holloway: The debate over the creation of a national bank reveals how Washington, Jefferson and Hamilton, despite profound disagreements, argued respectfully.

The Living Constitution Revisited

By Carson Holloway: Justice William Brennan’s vision of a living constitution continues to dominate contemporary constitutional interpretation, in spite of its troubling inconsistencies.

Christmas and Western Civilization

From Carson Holloway: Though Christmas is a religious holiday, secularists should appreciate its great contribution to Western Civilization: the lesson that all men are equal in their fundamental human dignity. The holiday season has…

Donald Trump, George Will, and the Crisis of American Conservatism

Carson Holloway has another great article posted over at Public Discourse. This excerpt, from over half-way through it, gives a flavor of the piece, but you’re missing out if you don’t click over and read the…

Same-sex marriage and inter-racial marriage: not the same thing

By Carson Holloway: Anti-miscegenation laws form a specious analogy.

Same-Sex Marriage and Interracial Marriage: Not the Same Thing

By Carson Holloway: One seeks to defend an intelligible understanding of marriage; the other sought to achieve racial purity.