What Is the Separation of Powers?
This week, President Obama made several recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But here’s the catch: The… Read More
Articles by Julia Shaw
Are Human Rights the Same as Natural Rights?
In recognition of the 63rd anniversary of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, President Obama proclaimed this week Human Rights Week. Americans know a… Read More
So You Think You Know Your Rights?
It seems people think that they have a right to everything these days: a right to the Internet, to free health care, to a good… Read More
President Obama’s New Model: Teddy Roosevelt’s New Nationalism Speech
Yesterday, Barack Obama became the second President to use a speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, as an opportunity to take on the mantle of a previous… Read More
How Can America Be Just If It Didn’t Abolish Slavery Right Away?
On this December 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment was adopted and slavery was abolished. There has always been intense debate about the existence of slavery… Read More
Bureaucrats Gone Wild: Will Congress REIN in the Administrative State?
Next week, Congress will have an opportunity to bring much-needed oversight to America’s regulatory process by voting for the aptly named REINS Act (Regulations from… Read More
All I Want for Christmas… The Top 10 First Principles Books
You camped out by Best Buy for Black Friday, perused the neighborhood shops on Small Business Saturday, crashed the computer on Cyber Monday, but still… Read More
The True Meaning of Thanksgiving
This Thursday, millions of families will celebrate Thanksgiving with roasted turkey, buttery mashed potatoes, and (with only a slight amount of guilt) another piece of… Read More
Who, under the Constitution, Makes Foreign Policy?
In less than five days, GOP candidates will meet in Washington, D.C., to discuss national security and foreign policy. This first-ever presidential debate sponsored by… Read More
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William F. Buckley: Conservatism’s Intellectual Godfather
Sixty years ago this November, a recent Yale graduate published a book that outraged the distinguished university’s administration and launched a young conservative’s career. The… Read More
