What comes to your mind when you hear the word anarchy? Is it a scene like unto "Mad Max Fury Road" or the Fallout video game series, a dystopian or semi-apocalyptic future, filled with bandits, feral beasts, cannibals, raiders, general chaos, dogs and cats living...
The People are the De Jure authority, not the incorporated de facto. Today I was inspired to write this out after an unexpected conversation on the phone. I'm going to keep it basic, so if I'm scant on details bear with me. To those people who are unaware, the way the...
Governments and their instruments are instituted by people for the benefit of the populace, that benefit best being: To aid in protecting a man or woman's unalienable rights to freedom, liberty, life, pursuit of happiness, and property. There seems to be a common...
Something just happened in our small town of less than one thousand residents that suggests it was no accident, but a tactic. And, I believe the more people know about it the more likely those who oppose such tactics may be able to combat them We had an election for a...
We are at a crossroads in our nation’s history and presented with two distinct choices: liberty or tyranny.
We either believe in American exceptionalism and the founding principle of self-governance or we choose a style of governance that centrally plans our very existence. Ben Franklin gave us a warning against apathy when he stated, “we have a Republic if we can keep it” following The Constitutional Convention. Ronald Reagan planted his flag when he asked, “if not us who, if not now when?”
Shouldn’t we be teaching our children the three Rs and history instead of this controversial and divisive material? Shouldn’t we let parents teach morality at home?
Soon we will be electing our “leaders” for the next two years. It is unusual to have a single party in control of our state and the federal government. In the current election cycle, Democrats control the Presidency, the Governorship, and both houses of the Federal...
For several years prior to 2020, violent crime in America’s major cities was on the decline. But since the riots that summer following the death of George Floyd, it is heading in the opposite direction.
Some people are better in handling power than others. Janet Mills is not one of them. For 16 months, she extended emergency powers and denied the legislature the opportunity to do their jobs. Mills issued 98 executive orders under her declared “State of Emergency.”...
A March 21 article from the Pew Research Center titled, Public Trust in Government 1958 – 2021 Near Historic Lows stated only 2% trusted the government to do what was right “just about always” and 22% trusted the government to do what was right “most of the...
The following is adapted from a talk delivered on the Regent Seven Seas Mariner on June 30, 2023, during a Hillsdale College educational cruise from Istanbul to Athens. Hillsdale is often called a conservative college, and in an important sense it is, although it is not a label we regard as fundamental. The word “conservative”
The following is adapted from a talk delivered at Hillsdale College on October 3, 2023, during a conference on “U.S. Intelligence: History and Controversies.” We need the CIA, but we also need to recognize the uncomfortable reality that the CIA is not performing at the level we require. It is not keeping us safe. It
The following is adapted from a talk delivered on September 12, 2023, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdale’s Washington, D.C., campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series. The transgender movement is pressing its agenda everywhere. Most publicly, activist teachers are using classrooms to propagandize
