Thomas Sowell’s “Social Justice Fallacies”

By |2023-11-26T11:30:25-06:00November 27th, 2023|Categories: American Republic, Books, Civil Society, Equality, Ethnicity, Politics|

Thomas Sowell is quite content to make his case while he waits for the political tide to turn. The way things are going, this nonagenarian may still be on hand when conservative black politicians are the major American voice of this American minority. If and when that happens, wherever Thomas Sowell is, he will know [...]

What “The Federalist” Really Says

By |2023-10-27T06:03:11-05:00October 26th, 2023|Categories: Abraham Lincoln, American Founding, American Republic, Equality, Featured, Federalist, Federalist Papers, James Madison, John Locke, Timeless Essays, Willmoore Kendall|

It is from careful textual analysis of “The Federalist” that the basic symbols of the American political tradition, and indeed the conservative tradition, may be found. III In his analysis of the Socrates of the Apology, Willmoore Kendall was hinting strongly at the probability that the contemporary John Stuart Mill-Karl Popper school in the United [...]

William Faulkner’s Last Words & the American Dilemma

By |2023-09-24T14:40:44-05:00September 24th, 2023|Categories: Equality, Liberty, M. E. Bradford, Rhetoric, Timeless Essays|

The lesson of William Faulkner’s “Gold Medal” speech is both in the teaching it offers and in the method we must employ to grasp that meaning. It is a work of politi­cal imagination, drawing its rhetoric from the same fountainhead as poetry. The Summer of 1971, we Americans were removed by only half a decade from [...]

The Supreme Court Ends Racial Discrimination

By |2023-07-03T10:58:28-05:00July 1st, 2023|Categories: 14th Amendment, Constitution, Equality, Senior Contributors, Supreme Court, Thomas R. Ascik|

The Supreme Court has found the race-based admission practices of both Harvard University and the University of North Carolina to be unconstitutional violations of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In the words of Chief Justice John Roberts, “Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.” In Students for Fair Admissions, Inc., decided [...]

Andrew Carnegie, Equality, & American Progress

By |2023-05-29T19:52:04-05:00May 29th, 2023|Categories: Alexis de Tocqueville, American Republic, Equality, History, Ted McAllister, Timeless Essays|

To Andrew Carnegie, equality meant a way of being, a condition that shaped the soul of the individual and thereby the soul of a people or nation. Equality not only unleashed the energy of the American people so that they would become the most prosperous in the world, but it shaped their moral condition, it [...]

The Radical Equality of Christianity

By |2023-07-18T17:03:28-05:00February 16th, 2023|Categories: Bradley J. Birzer, Christendom, Christianity, Civilization, Culture, Equality, Religion, Senior Contributors, Timeless Essays|

In our world of recriminating hatreds—in which we desire more to label those we don’t like as sexist, imperialist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, and, simultaneously, mark ourselves as victims—we often forget some important historical truths. Here’s one we conveniently ignore, dismiss, or mock: Nothing in the world has brought about more equality and justice than has [...]

“Harrison Bergeron” and the New Middle

By |2022-12-21T18:36:07-06:00December 21st, 2022|Categories: Equality, Literature, Politics|

Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron” is a cautionary tale about the horror of totalitarianism. It matters little from which camp the horror originates: Left, Right, Democrat, or Republican. Horror is horror. As the Left and, increasingly, the Right continue to turn their backs on all things sacred, they are left only with themselves. In October of [...]

Will the Supreme Court Reaffirm Affirmative Action?

By |2022-11-03T23:17:33-05:00October 30th, 2022|Categories: Constitution, Equality, Supreme Court|

In its 1978 Bakke case, the Supreme Court created and condoned racial preference—“affirmative action” and “diversity”—in university admissions. Now the Court is hearing a fundamental challenge to this widespread and now ever-increasing practice in education and in society. As for the membership of the Court in what may turn out to be landmark decisions in [...]

“Equality” and the Tyranny of the Majority

By |2022-10-12T17:11:10-05:00October 12th, 2022|Categories: Alexis de Tocqueville, Equality, Jean-Jacques Rousseau|

In order to flourish, democracy must be firmly grounded in principle. In order to remain stable, power must be decentralized, and therefore liberty and equality under the law must be valued over abstract and ambiguous ideals such as “equality” or “progress.” I am a democrat because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think [...]

Beyond Mere Measure: Eva Brann on Equality

By |2022-10-03T18:56:02-05:00October 3rd, 2022|Categories: Alexis de Tocqueville, Books, Equality, Eva Brann, St. John's College|

It is no mean feat to bring together the thought of Thucydides and Tocqueville when discussing the topic of equality, a concept seemingly so ancient and timeless. In her new book, Eva Brann has crafted a bridge beyond these revered sources onto the banks of newer, gleaned insights; it is a bridge that invites the [...]

Statesmanship & the Dangers of Civil Religion

By |2022-06-27T17:35:55-05:00June 27th, 2022|Categories: Abraham Lincoln, Bruce Frohnen, Equality, Government, Politics, Timeless Essays|

Demands for statesmanship tend to hold up a model of greatness in political leadership that is profoundly dangerous. The desire to be “great” by upholding the interests of the nation as a political whole promotes a massive increase in the extent and centralization of political power. I recently attended a conference on statesmanship. Truth be [...]

Knowing My Neighbor

By |2022-02-26T14:00:25-06:00February 26th, 2022|Categories: Christianity, Dwight Longenecker, Equality, Homosexual Unions, Senior Contributors|

Christians wish to assert the truth that each person is a unique individual whose eternal worth and meaning is greater than his sexual inclinations or gender choices. Some time ago on social media I asked an honest question: Why was it incorrect to refer to African Americans as “colored people” but it was okay to [...]

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