Robert Curry, Author at The Federalist

Robert Curry

Robert Curry is the author of "Common Sense Nation: Unlocking the Forgotten Power of the American Idea," from Encounter Books. You can preview the book on Amazon.

Here’s Your Quick Guide To The American Founders’ Mentors

The Scottish Enlightenment was an explosion of creative intellectual energy. It arrived just in time to have a decisive influence on the American Founders.

If You Demand Rights That Aren’t Unalienable, You Don’t Get America

The readily observable fact that we no longer think politically in terms of unalienable rights is a perfect measure of how much we have abandoned the Founders’ vision.

The Left’s Denial Of Marxism’s Failures Have Depleted Its Common Sense

The Left decided they faced not a verdict but a choice: Marxism or rationality. So great was their attachment to Marxism that they chose to abandon rationality.

Why The American Founders Cared About Happiness

‘The pursuit of happiness’ shouldn’t confuse people who study the American founders.

The New Republic Can’t Help Its Progressive, Control-Freak Tendencies

What has happened at The New Republic is happening in progressivism itself. The more progressivism advances, the more its illiberal postulates are revealed.