Ken Ham is right. In his reading of Genesis, the earth is 6000 years old, humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time, and the creation and flood accounts in Genesis are literally and historically true. As Ham declares, “when you take away the foundation of the absolute authority of …
As some seem to want to tell it, when the nation was first formed, it was clear that the war could only be prosecuted successfully by a strong central government. Only with significant power of taxation to pay the soldiers fighting for our freedom, and the might to keep the …
Perhaps more important than those thrilling three words which precede it, “We the People”, are the four which follow, “of the United States.” This Constitution is forming a nation. Compare this with “the perpetual union between the states,” which the Articles of Confederation notes. A group of influential men gathered …
Capitalism and democracy are incompatible. Katerina once told me that democracy is a deception that the powerful offer to trick people into believing they have a voice in their government. She was a left-wing student of mine when I was teaching high school in Greece almost 40 years ago, and …
I’ve been continuing my journey through Thomas Pangle’s course Great Debates: Advocates and Opponents of the American Constitution. The most recent lectures concentrated on the Anti-Federalist arguments in opposition to the Constitution and the ideas which went into it. I’m hearing clear echos of their ideas and beliefs in elements of …
Justin Green writes about “what it means to be a conservative in today’s society,” in Current Radical GOP Rhetoric Contradicts True Values of Conservatism, at the Daily Nebraskan. He quotes conservative scholar Russell Kirk in claiming that conservatism is the fear of hasty change, “Hasty innovation may be a devouring conflagration.” …