By Siddharth Rajsekar As the online world continues to boom, so do the number of online trollers. You spot them everywhere on the internet, mostly making derogatory irrelevant remarks. As a digital coach, I have learned to take their presence in stride and respond with a calm demeanor to not disrupt my sessions, staying focused…
The Moral Foundations of the Market Order
Commentary The moral justification for markets finds itself on the defensive in the face of aggressive challenges issuing from progressives but also from economic nationalists on the right. Many of those on the right don’t understand themselves to be challenging markets as such—only certain economic forces that, they contend, have drained the middle class of…
What Is American Citizenship?
Commentary These days, the idea of citizenship immediately calls to mind the idea of rights: we have rights because we are citizens of a rights-protecting nation. Behind this idea is the Declaration of Independence, which proclaims that all men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain “unalienable” rights. Yet the Constitution…
The American Regime and Its Moral Ground
Commentary In the night he was elected president in November 2008, Barack Obama addressed a vast throng in Grant Park in my hometown of Chicago and remarked that we had built this country “calloused hand by calloused hand, for 221 years.” Obama professed an admiration for Abraham Lincoln, but it was clear that he hadn’t…
Civic Education as a Duty and a Delight
Commentary For too many Americans, “civics” is either a vague mystery or akin to a dental cleaning: we know that we should do it but would avoid it if possible. Regrettably, our country has chosen in the past 50 years the path of avoidance and ignorance by demoting civic education in our schools, including higher…
If There Is No Truth, There Is No Injustice
Commentary Can there be injustice if there is no truth? Martin Luther King Jr. considered this question in his powerful letter from Birmingham Jail (1963). He was responding to fellow members of the clergy who opposed segregation but rejected civil disobedience, which involved breaking the law. His central point was that laws may be just…
The Supreme Court in the American Constitutional Order
Commentary This spring, President Biden appointed a 35-member Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, charged with soliciting expert views, deliberating among themselves, and reporting back to him on the subject of “reforming” the nation’s highest court. The commission’s members are themselves mostly eminent scholars of the Court’s work, preponderantly but by…
Paternalistic Government: Killing US With Kindness?
Commentary We all have probably imagined a life of ease at some time in our lives. The dream or notion of arriving at the proverbial “Easy Street” has been a recurring theme in America for generations. The Democratic Party seems to want to make that dream a reality for all Americans with its plans for…
The Virtue of Self-Restraint in Expression
Commentary Two or three generations ago, a common parental admonishment was, “Hold your tongue!” There’s a lot to be said for controlling that impulsive little bodily member (see James 3:1-10). It shows both consideration for the feelings of others and demonstrates mastery over one’s own reckless and destructive impulses. Social standards often swing like a…
Private Property: The Indispensable Key to Political Freedom, Social Cooperation, and Economic Progress
Commentary Imagine a society with no property rights: No law or officer of the law would prohibit you or punish you for taking whatever you want from whomever you want. Such a society would be chaotic, hostile, and poor. In such a dog-eat-dog scenario, all but the most powerful and their allies would have little…
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