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The Writings of Harry V. Jaffa Six books by Harry Jaffa have been reprinted by the Claremont Institute.
Give Until You're Conservative
I have no social science study saying liberals are more or less rich than conservatives. But what must the future hold -- demographically speaking -- if Who Really Cares, a new book based on social science about charity in America by Arthur Brooks, is right?
Prudence is Morally Superior to Ideology
The United States is founded on the premise that human beings are governed by "the laws of nature and of nature’s God," which declare "that all men are created equal" in their rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." This is not a mere "ideology" but the moral truth...
If this be moderation
Former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has won election to the Iranian government's Assembly of Experts -- or "Expediency Council," depending on the translation -- and the Western press is covering the event with all the perspicacity it can muster...
People Who Need People
Of late, I have been reading Mark Steyn's fine new book, America Alone. In brief, Steyn argues that the Occident is being out-reproduced by the Orient. That natives of Europe...
Surging To Failure
If there is a motto for the Bush Administration's war policy, it is, "Doing the Right Thing Wrongly." Never have such good intentions been marred by such relentlessly poor execution...
Are The Rich Getting Richer?
Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal put a fine op-ed Alan Reynolds on the web. Reynolds shows that studies showing an increasing "wealth gap" in America may very well be flawed...
Silly Babbitt...
The latest pearl of wisdom gleaned from Democracy and Leadership. Not much has changed since the 1920s: With the present trend towards ‘social justice,’ the time is rapidly approaching when...
Couplings
The New Jersey Legislature yesterday voted to create "civil unions" for homosexuals who prefer a legal veneer to their couplings and cohabitations...
"There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
–James Madison, Speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 16, 1788.