May 18, 2012 ~ The Imaginative Conservative

I Get By With A Little Help From My “Friends”

As a woman, I constantly need to be rescued. I can’t say no. I do what I want, and if I can’t, someone better give me the means to do it anyways. I am completely free and liberated! Wait, what? I know what you’re thinking: since when did liberation mean total dependence on the government? [...]

The Real Founding: Long Gone

By Bradley J. Birzer|2023-07-08T12:56:01-05:00May 18th, 2012|Categories: American Founding, American Republic, Bradley J. Birzer, Politics|

Last week, I had the privilege of lecturing on the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. Passed unanimously by Congress in New York on July 13, 1787, this law never ceases to inspire me. As our own venerable John Willson has argued many times, it is, quite possibly, the most impressive republican law ever passed. Protecting religious [...]