Liberty

Antietam & the Moral Clarity of the Emancipation Proclamation

This week marks the anniversary of the bloodiest day in American history. In September 1862, at small town in western Maryland, nearly 23,000 young Americans were killed or wounded.

July 4: “Liberty as Independence”

“The Founders way of thinking about liberty is much more alert to dangers to liberty in civil society.”

Antisemitism and Free Speech in Europe and America

The US Federal Government has long utilized an indirect approach to dissociate itself from institutions that promote or allow offensive speech, as with racism and antisemitism. 

Stephen Wolfe’s Case for a Protestant Byzantium

Stephen Wolfe’s book, while provocative and worth reading, fails to consider the good reasons for Abraham Kuyper’s neo-Calvinist political theology

Liberal Nationalism, Abraham Lincoln, and the Unification of Italy

Although liberalism and nationalism are not often thought of together, liberal nationalism is a powerful force for nation-building.

Jefferson’s Tombstone, and Ours?

Thomas Jefferson valued universal religious liberty as one of his greatest accomplishments. Do his lessons from America’s founding last today?

The Constitution is No “Parchment Promise”

While it has become fashionable to declare US Constitution an obstacle to conservative objectives, nothing could be further from the truth

Two Ladies, Two National Spirits

Great nations often have two great national spirits, two internal voices between which they must choose in providential times.

The Crisis of the University

We need to become outposts of intellectual seriousness and Christian virtue and moral sanity that expose the darkness of our generation.