“If our civilization is to truly flourish, we must push passed the clamor of the culture wars and build our society on the firm foundation of a liberal arts education.” ~ Tyler Syck
READ MORE“At a time when we often not only forget that liberty is both America’s rationale and its greatness, but routinely violate it, Americans would profit from returning to Adams’ wisdom.” ~ Gary M. Galles
READ MORE“Insofar as humanity embraces this liberal commitment to epistemic unpretentiousness, humanity is protected against the fevers and passions of persons who are enflamed by their sense of certainty.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
READ MORE“The nature of the constitutional instrument tells you how to read it. Once you see that, but only once you see it, the clauses make all the sense in the world and you will know how to read them.” ~ Michael S. Greve
READ MORE“Does liberty presuppose virtuous people, or is liberty a precondition for our becoming virtuous people? Adams pondered these and related questions until he was 90.” ~ Aeon J. Skoble
READ MORE“The Stockdale Paradox reminds us that when faith falters, turning to false optimism is not the path forward. Such optimism, wrote Frankl in Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything, ‘lull[s] us into complacency and… a rosy fatalism.’” ~ Barry Brownstein
READ MORE“There was an underlying humility in the older classical liberalism that assumed that each person could better find his own way than to presume that political paternalists could make better decisions for them.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling
READ MORE“The dark times that we are experiencing nearly a century after Mumford began his writing career have been experienced by previous generations, including Mumford’s and Melville’s.” ~ Natalie Taylor
READ MORE“Responsibility and duty are necessary elements of individual liberty. In between anarchy and tyranny is civic liberty, which may require the time and energy of citizens to maintain a level of lawful order in society.” ~ Daniel Betti
READ MORE“With the midterm elections so close, anyone who has studied Cleveland’s views, can’t help but recognize the abyss between that ‘honest, principled, and plain-spoken president’ and the current occupant of the White House. ” ~ Gary M. Galles
READ MORE“Like the Chinese communists, Lewis sees no need for every family to cook, wash clothes, and raise children. For the Chinese, instead of paradise, the outcome was the worst man-made famine in history.” ~ Barry Brownstein
READ MORE“If people make improvements to unused public land without legal title for their activity, have they earned a claim to that property through their labor on it?” ~ Daniel Betti
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