The continuation of the American experiment requires cultivating a citizenry that can envision the rich life that flourishes between the extremes of overbearing government and radical individualism—in short, cultivating a citizenry that knows how to be free and prioritizes that freedom.
National Affairs, Summer 2012With crime on the rise in the wake of President Obama’s disparaging of police, it seems like a strange time for Republicans in Congress to be working with the Obama administration to make the federal justice system more lenient.
Conservative Review, September 1, 2015
The National Mall does not need to be marred by a taxpayer-funded postmodern monstrosity that in no way reflects the republican mores that guided the man it would purportedly honor.
The Weekly Standard, August 17, 2015
To continue funding Planned Parenthood is to deny science, morality, and humanity.
Investor's Business Daily, August 4, 2015
The similarities between the Planned Parenthood videos and the killing of Cecil the Lion are more telling than the differences.
The Weekly Standard, August 3, 2015Part of what makes the recently released Planned Parenthood videos so damaging to the abortion industry, which has long relied on misleading rhetoric to mask its barbarism, is the self-evident truth that human organs can only come from human life.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 29, 2015As Congress considers reducing federal prison sentences, a new report from federal prosecutors addresses the many myths driving these “reform” efforts, which risk needlessly reversing the decades-long drop in crime.
July 2015The “animating principle behind the abortion industry and its flagship (and taxpayer-supported) organization” is utter indifference to the violent taking of human life.
Commentary, July 20, 2015After inheriting a nation with drug use in steep decline, the Obama administration’s combination of neglect and unfulfilled promises related to drug control, treatment, and prevention has brought “devastating results.”
Washington Times, June 22, 2015
As calls for marijuana legalization increase, even in the face of mounting research demonstrating the real harms of pot use, serious questions should be asked about how increased use and potency could be related to the diminishing educational performance of America’s youth.
Hudson Institute, May 18, 2015
Conservatives should advance policies that strengthen the mediating institutions—families, small businesses, Tocquevillian civil associations—that are both the fruits and facilitators of republicanism, and hence of real freedom.
Intercollegiate Review, April 20, 2015
While federal drug laws go un-enforced, “legal” marijuana in Colorado puts the state “at risk of triggering a public health crisis that will hit youths especially hard,” with evidence already beginning to pile up.
Colorado Springs Gazette, March 24, 2015As the end of this classic essay highlights, Lincoln’s arguments against slavery work about equally well against abortion—as in each case a deprivation of unalienable rights has been defended on the grounds of form, ability, or choice.
First Things, May 2003
Contrary to legalization proponents’ predictions, most pot in Colorado continues to be sold through the black market (increasingly to youths), the drug cartels are now diversifying into meth and heroin, and “Colorado is the black market for the rest of the country.”
The Gazette, March 23, 2015
In yet another blatant violation of federal law, the Obama administration is moving to allow the sale of high-potency marijuana on Indian reservations from coast to coast, with predictable ill-effects
Real Clear Policy, March 10, 2015