The Riots In France Perfectly Illustrate Why We Need The Electoral College
A popular vote is based on a distorted expectation about government and rewards the wrong kind of leaders — urban demagogues.
Will Either Party Change Course After Midterms? Probably Not
The Atlantic’s McKay Coppins joins the Federalist Radio Hour to discuss the midterms, 2020, and the evolving legacy of Newt Gingrich.
How The Bible Undermined The Concept Of Global Empires In Favor Of Nation-States
The Bible put a new political conception on the table: a state of a single nation that is united, self-governing, and uninterested in bringing its neighbors under its rule.
A Vote for Socialism Is A Vote For State-Run Slavery
Socialism begins as a form of serfdom, tying people to the government just as medieval landlords tied their serfs to the land.
It Doesn’t Matter If You Love The Constitution If Your Neighbors Don’t Know What It Says
Our constitutional culture is falling apart. We must remedy that before it’s too late.
Liberals Blaming The Senate For Their Loss Of Political Power Have Lost Touch With Reality
Democrats’ loss of political power is not the result of a structural defect; it’s the result of flaws in the quality of their Senate candidates.
Interview: Dennis Prager On Western Values, Jewish Leftism, And Censorship
Prager talks with Ben Weingarten about his conservative views, religiosity, reason versus emotion, Western values in immigration policy, and social media.
It’s Definitely Time To Pack The Supreme Court, But For Entirely Practical Reasons
An expanded Supreme Court would be more effective, and make each appointment less of an apocalyptic event.
What Self-Governing Societies Can Learn From Ancient Athens
In the third lecture of Hillsdale College’s course on the histories of Athens and Sparta, Victor Davis Hanson asks: ‘What is the chief virtue of Athens?’
How The New Deal Corrupted Government And Eroded Constitutional Checks And Balances
The New Deal led to the rise of the administrative state, to which Congress frequently delegates its regulatory power.
Why Progressives Declared The Founding Fathers Irrelevant
Progressive thinkers rejected many of the ideas upon which the U.S. Constitution was based. They declared the Founding Fathers irrelevant and natural law dead.
5 Big, Fat Lies Free Speech Opponents Love
Free speech is under sustained attack in our country. Here are five lies the attackers use to undermine our most basic freedom.
‘Stream of Conscience’ Will Become Your Newest Podcast Addiction
The first season of ‘Stream of Conscience,’ a podcast that tells the stories of the people behind court battles for religious freedom, just dropped on iTunes.
Was America’s Founding Revolutionary Or Conservative?
Dr. Larry Arnn poses the question in the first lecture of Hillsdale College’s free online Constitution 101 course.
Parkland Underscores How Americans Pay For Garbage Government While Doing Its Job Ourselves
This kind of government employee incompetence with horrific consequences is by no means limited to the Parkland killings. Instead, it is endemic to U.S. government.
Sheriff Scott Israel Exemplifies The Failures Of Our Institutions
Rather than turning inward to rebuild our institutions to serve the American people well, the rotting and distrusted and negligent institutions will seize more power.
Sorry, Liberals, But America Is Not A Democracy, And It’s Better That Way
Our republic is democratic in that it is controlled by public opinion, but our Constitution requires patience and persistence for the people to express that opinion through elections.
What Populism Is And Why It’s So Compelling
Donald Trump gestured at something lacking in the two-party system of the past generation and, whether he meant to or not, began the shift to a new system of conservatism.
What If You Can’t Normalize Donald Trump — Because He’s Already Normal?
It has become a terrible crime to ‘normalize’ Donald Trump. But have we considered the even more terrifying possibility that Donald Trump is normal?
Mick Mulvaney Just Savaged The CFPB In His First Press Conference As Director
‘I’m just learning about the powers that I have as acting director. They would frighten most of you.’
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