We must support policies and candidates committed to restoring constitutional wisdom to our political institutions. This means that we must be willing to see unsustainable programs cut, even programs that we like and depend on.
Ali Noorani | Posted 04.24.2012
At its heart, America is an idea, not an ideology. And the idea that all men (and women) are created equal is unique to America. Once we allow law enforcement to ask someone for identification because they look less equal, the idea of America weakens.
Terry Newell | Posted 04.23.2012
If the Supreme Court holds that the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate, which requires every American adult to purchase health insurance or pay a fine, is unconstitutional, why could not Social Security be next?
Robin Koerner | Posted 04.18.2012
Left and Right and Right and Left / Have left America bereft / Of liberty, its founding light. / Christians, Liberals speak of peace / Until they hold the nation's leash, / And send its youth to fight.
Adam Kissel | Posted 04.10.2012
I am dismayed that the risk management industry is training law enforcement and college officials to see a hoodie or "harmful debate" as a potential threat.
Jesse Larner | Posted 04.03.2012
Libertarians are fond of saying, "Your right to swing your fist ends where my chin begins." The idea is that the only legitimate limits on freedom of ...
Donald Cohen | Posted 05.30.2012
The Supreme Court's deliberation goes to the heart of differing visions of the American concept of "freedom" and "liberty." It's a debate worth having. Solicitor General Verilli's argument evokes FDR's famous "Four Freedoms Speech".
David Boaz | Posted 05.22.2012
Does Cal Thomas apply his libertarian warnings against "growing and intrusive government," with "no limits," which is slowly and steadily eroding our liberty, broadly? No, not so much.
Russell C. Smith | Posted 05.15.2012
What a grand gesture. The pursuit of happiness -- codified into the founding document of a newly emerging nation. Happiness as an ideal to reach for and maybe not ever attain.
Greg Lukianoff | Posted 04.09.2012
At the same time the Supreme Court is poised to decide if FCC-imposed limits on "indecent" content in broadcast media are an anachronism from a bygone era, Arizona state legislators want to limit what college professors say and do to only what is fit for a Disney movie.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 03.14.2012
Regardless of whether the next president is a Republican or Democrat, whether it's Barack Obama or Mitt Romney or any other of the Republican frontrunners, one thing is guaranteed: he will lie.
Bob Cesca | Posted 03.12.2012
People who are devoted to Ron Paul appear to be more interested in the fantastical, fictitious idea of President Ron Paul than the realistic manifestation of President Ron Paul.
AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 01.23.2012
WASHINGTON — With a wave of his hand, President Barack Obama on Wednesday gave two plump turkeys a Thanksgiving reprieve, noting that without hi...
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 01.22.2012
Double the top tax rate! It's time for those who have benefited from our system to pull their own weight again. Or as politicians used to say but don't seem to anymore, "From whom much is given, much is expected."
Paul Schwennesen | Posted 12.20.2011
Centralization in nearly every facet of American life has quietly crept up on us. Our food, our money, and our rules have all been pushed steadily uphill, creating a top-heavy and imbalanced structure that we're only beginning to lash back at.
Ken Adelman | Posted 12.11.2011
After six years of success, the Internet Governance Forum has come under assault by the authoritarian Chinese government and the international-regulation crowd in the UN bureaucracy.
Robin Koerner | Posted 11.11.2011
Since 9-11, it seems that the American Left and the American Right have agreed on something of profound importance: we're scared. The politics of the last decade have been the politics of fear.
Greg Lukianoff | Posted 11.07.2011
Harvard has missed something that I fear much of our society has lost sight of: Even if by some weird and lucky coincidence we happened to be right about every belief we cherish, we nevertheless tend not to understand why we hold those values until they are challenged.
Carol Smaldino | Posted 10.31.2011
When we vote or decide or discuss or debate, we are supposed to be informed. However, if we so often rely on superstitions and belief systems that don't work, how is there any truth at all?
Adam Kissel | Posted 10.30.2011
Lower standards of evidence will likely produce more guilty findings -- not just of the guilty, but also the innocent. When verdicts are wrong, the cause of justice on campus is ill-served.
Robin Koerner | Posted 10.11.2011
Austrians prefer limited government -- limited to enforcing contracts made voluntarily between free individuals. They don't want government to print and inflate money as that allows them covertly to reduce private wealth, transferring it to themselves.
Bruce Fein | Posted 09.19.2011
The United States has lost its philosophical soul. The nation's predominant motivations are money, sex, power, domination, fame and indulgence. These are the motivations of children and adolescents.
Robin Koerner | Posted 09.06.2011
Since you can't change the Democrat ticket, why not act where you can make a positive change, by telling the Republican party where you really want it to go. I offer you a special moniker to set yourselves apart: the "Blue Republican."
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 08.31.2011
Famed 19th Century abolitionist and fighter for racial justice Frederick Douglass thundered in a speech "What is the Fourth of July to Me." Douglass a...
AP | JUAN A. LOZANO | Posted 09.05.2011
LIBERTY, Texas — DNA testing delays prompted a judge Wednesday to push back until October the cases of 14 men accused of taking part in a series...
James Robison | Posted 05.30.2012