Lincoln’s natural rights statesmanship should be our guide.
Founders & Lincoln
The Principles, Purposes, and Form of Republican Government. We will not resolve the present crises without deeply considering the principles and purposes of American government before the progressive era. It is impossible to go back, but to go forward wisely we must understand the the form of the regime wrought by the Founders and Lincoln, and the tradition of republican government.
The Founders risked their blood and treasure in the fight for American self-government.
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams celebrate their last Fourth of July.
Elevating the natural aristocracy above the pseudo-aristocracies.
How Americans are a revolutionary people.
Why we remember Thomas Jefferson but have forgotten John Dickinson.
Celebrating the railsplitter’s 216th birthday.
They wholly rejected British common law on this question.
A new documentary resurrects a frivolous old innuendo.
The Constitution and America’s philosophical cause.
A modest reflection on the U.S.’s perfection.
Reviving the constitutional order will require heroic national effort.