In his 2012 book Coming Apart, Charles Murray argues that the middle class, once seen as the “virtuous silent majority,” is alienated from the “founding virtues” of civic...
“Thou shalt not encroach upon the religious liberty of your fellow citizens” is not something you will find in the Bible. The First Amendment guarantees the free exercise...
A young college graduate living at home with his parents discovers a great injustice that shapes the future of a nation. Sounds unbelievable, right? It’s true, and it’s...
Making things free only makes them more expensive. Making things free sounds like a good policy idea. Who doesn’t like free things? These days, a lot of policy-makers...
A recent Barna Group study reveals a significant rise in fears regarding religious freedom in America. More than three-quarters of American evangelical Christians surveyed said, “Religious liberty is...
Ideas matter because lives hang in the balance. This is what I teach my students. It’s what I emphasize when I speak to different audiences. Christians know ideas...
There is not a single instance in history in which civil liberty was lost, and religious liberty preserved entire. If therefore we yield up our temporal property, we...
As we prepare to celebrate the 239th anniversary of the signing of Declaration of Independence, far too many Americans have bought into the idea that the American founding...
The U.S. has dropped from the second most economically free country in the world to the eighteenth in the past twelve years. One of the major reasons we’ve...
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