Commentary How many examples could one give to show what a sick world left-wing activists, the media, and the Democrats—the left’s political party—have wrought? The number is equal to the number of policies they advocate. There is no more obvious example than their position on the display of a penis in front of girls and…
You Have a Right to Be Transgender. You Don’t Have a Right to Expose Yourself to Women.
The Moral and Religious Case Against Unconditional Love
Commentary Unconditional love is neither biblical nor rational nor moral. Can you name anything good that is or should be given with no moral or ethical conditions? Take salary, for example: Do you see a problem with continuing to pay employees no matter how they perform? In other words, do you see a problem with…
Timeless Wisdom: George Washington Deemed Religion and Morality Essential to Political Prosperity
George Washington said something that many modern Americans would find nonsensical—and he did so not in some private document, but in perhaps the most public statement of his career, his Farewell Address published just prior to the end of his presidency. He said the following: “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political…
Book Review: ‘The Enduring Tension: Capitalism and the Moral Order’
One of the selling points for those who embrace far-left progressivism and even socialism is the “morality” of redistributing income and even wealth from productive, hard-working Americans to others. Opponents of these tried-and-failed philosophies can cite the empirical numbers, demonstrating that the outcomes of states and nations that have moved toward socialism have botched their…
Civic Virtues as Moral Facts: Recovering the Other Half of Our Founding
Commentary Until a half century ago or so, there was a moral consensus, however fraying, that informed and shaped the exercise of freedom in the Western world. The self-determination of human beings, of citizens in self-governing political orders, presupposed a civilized inheritance that allowed free men and women to distinguish, without angst or arduous effort,…
A Time for Choosing: A Test for Our Souls
The political crisis the United States faces brings into the open a contest for the soul of our country. As important as this recent election is, the stakes transcend particular political arrangements. They go to fundamental issues about which each of us must make a choice and take a stand. A peculiarity of our current…
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