The Reason for an Article V
[Editor: This is an excerpt (without footnotes) from the recently published Conventions That Made America: A Brief History of Consensus Building by Michael Kapic] The Reason We Must Continue According to the US Treasury Department, 2017 marked the [...]
How to Drain the Swamp
COMMENTARY BY Rep. Ken Buck@repkenbuck Rep. Ken Buck is the U.S. representative for Colorado's 4th congressional district. He serves on the House Judiciary Committee and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Congressional reform begins with stopping [...]
A Brief History of Liberalism
The Epic Triumph of Liberalism and Its Tragic Betrayal Dan Sanchez March 23, 2017 Three years ago, the New York Times asked whether “the libertarian moment” had finally arrived. Since then, we have seen no libertarian revolution in politics or [...]
Fake News and the Founders
The Founders Anticipated ‘Fake News.’ Here’s What They Did About It. Jarrett Stepman / @JarrettStepman / December 30, 2016 Hyperpartisan, scurrilous, and even phony news stories have been more common than uncommon throughout American history. (Photo: Andrew Parsons/ZUMA Press/Newscom) Following the [...]
America’s Genesis: Locke
Appeal to Heaven John Locke used the Appeal to Heaven phrase in his work, Two Treatises of Government.: "What is my Remedy against a Robber, that so broke into my House? Appeal to the Law for Justice. But [...]
Progressives Must Confront Their Racist Roots
Virginia Postrel December 10, 2016 Until recently, Princeton University’s devotion to Woodrow Wilson was so pervasive and worshipful that visitors to campus might easily have mistaken the modernist parthenon housing the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs [...]