John Locke Holds the Key to Understanding American Liberty
By Jerome Huyler: The Right to Liberty signifies a full allowance for self-directed action in pursuit of one’s personally chosen goals and values.
Read MoreUnderstanding America
231 years ago this week, work began on the most important document in American history
Too bad conservatives have failed to insure that more Americans knew about this document — here is Joseph Tartakovsky: The Athens of Socrates, the Florence of da Vinci, the London of Shakespeare — these…
Read MoreNatural Rights, God, and Marriage in the American Founding
By Vincent Phillip Muñoz: By calling our attention to the Founders’ political theory of the family, Thomas West’s new book leads us to ask whether a secular theory of natural rights and natural law…
Read MoreWhy The United States Is Not Too Big To Be Governed As James Madison Proposed
By Geoff Smock: James Madison is credited with debunking a prevailing suspicion that self-government was only possible on a smaller, state level.
Read MoreHere’s Your Quick Guide To The American Founders’ Mentors
By Robert Curry: The Scottish Enlightenment was an explosion of creative intellectual energy. It arrived just in time to have a decisive influence on the American Founders.
Read MoreWhy It’s Absolutely Vital We Understand America’s Founding Principles
By Bre Payton: In the second lecture of Hillsdale College’s free online Constitution 101 course, Professor West analyzes America’s founding principles as spelled out in the Declaration of Independence.
Read MoreHow The Constitution Promotes Liberty Through Separation Of Powers
By Bre Payton: The Constitution is still in place today because it works with, rather than fight against, mankind’s ambitious nature.
Read MoreAmerica Is the Best Place in History for Racial Minorities
By Dennis Prager: That is why more than 2 million Africans immigrated to the United States in the recent past (compared with the 388,000 who came as slaves).
Read MoreWas America’s Founding Revolutionary Or Conservative?
By Bre Payton: Dr. Larry Arnn poses the question in the first lecture of Hillsdale College’s free online Constitution 101 course.
Read MoreBenjamin Franklin’s Last Prayer
By Kevin Slack: Were the Founding Fathers Christians? It’s a common quarrel among students of American history – and one that’s frequently fought along partisan lines.
Read MoreCompulsory Schooling Is Incompatible with Freedom
By Kerry McDonald: America’s Founding Father knew that forcible education was incompatible with freedom.
Read MoreDefending the Founders and the (American) Enlightenment
By Robert Curry: The claim that American democratic republicanism is a first cousin to fascism and communism is simply not true.
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Mark Levin Is Right Again About How to Fight Tyranny
Here is Jeffrey Lord writing at the American Spectator: GOP Obamacare struggle shows tyranny of progressivism infects party. The headlines are almost daily now. Here are a few: From Politico: “Boehner: Republicans won’t repeal and…
Read MoreRevival Sparked the Revolution
By Trevor Thomas: Between the colonial and Revolutionary periods of American history came what historians have dubbed the (first) “Great Awakening.”
Read MoreMarking Natural Law with Mark Levin’s Important New Book
By Dr. Paul Kengor: Take in something lasting and satisfying this summer. Take a look at Mark Levin’s new book, Rediscovering Americanism and the Tyranny of Progressivism.
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