Thomas Jefferson

May we all strive to be a “sincere Lover of Liberty.”

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

The Hebrew Bible’s moral language and stories of God’s promises redeemed have provided a shared point of reference for all of American history. But if we continue to lose that shared language, polarization will only get worse

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

The Declaration of Independence was carefully composed for a broad international audience as much as for a domestic one

Blue laws were supported by framers of the Constitution and still have relevance today

America was once the world’s arsenal of democracy, can it be again?

Thomas Paine was an inspiration to the founders and still has lessons for today

Tyrants and despotisms always beckon. But the “blessings and security of self-government” offer greater happiness.