A Dangerous Strategy
The impulse from many – left, right, libertarian, and the rest – to give the federal government more power to “protect liberty” from state and local governments might seem like a good idea on the surface. But stop and consider what they’re really doing –...
The Values in the Constitution
The Declaration of Independence expressed a common American creed: All are born equal before God and the law, God bestows humans with natural rights, some of these rights are unalienable (untransferable), it’s the purpose of government to secure them, and if a...
Centralized Power as the Counterrevolution
A Review of Chaining Down Leviathan: The American Dream of Self-Government 1776-1865 How is it that America became a “strong but limited” government, and the world’s richest and most free country? And what has happened since? That is the central question both...