Ten-Step Checklist for Revitalizing America’s Immigration System: How the...
(Source: The Heritage Foundation) The U.S. immigration and border security system is often called broken and failed, prompting calls for comprehensive, complex legislation that provides amnesty to...
View ArticleThe volatile fusion: Origins, rise & demise of the ‘Islamic Left’
Between the late 1940s and late 1970s, some powerful ideologies that merged Marxism and Socialism with some innovative Islamic scholarship emerged in the Muslim world, prompted from the minds and...
View ArticleThe volatile fusion: Origins, rise and demise of the ‘Islamic Left’
Between the late 1940s and late 1970s, some powerful ideologies that merged Marxism and Socialism with some innovative Islamic scholarship emerged in the Muslim world, prompted from the minds and...
View ArticleOur Cyborg Future: Law and Policy Implications (Brookings Institution)
(Source: Brookings Institution) Download the Report Introduction In June 2014, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Riley v. California, in which the justices unanimously ruled that police...
View ArticleThe Right to Arms and the American Philosophy of Freedom (The Heritage...
(Source: The Heritage Foundation) October 17, 2016 | First Principles Series Report on Political Thought By Nelson Lund, Ph.D. The Founders of our republic did not think an armed citizenry was the...
View ArticleProfessor's Photography Highlights Changing Rural Landscape (Sonoma State...
(Source: Sonoma State University) When Polaroid decided to stop making its trademark instant-developing film in 2008, the company destroyed nearly all of its factories. Sonoma State University...
View ArticleThe Hidden Influence of John Rawls on the American Mind (The Heritage...
(Source: The Heritage Foundation) September 22, 2016 | First Principles Series Report on Political Thought By Jerome C. Foss, PhD The political thought of John Rawls has distorted the way many...
View ArticleThe Obligations of Family Life: A Response to Modern Liberalism (The Heritage...
(Source: The Heritage Foundation) June 2, 2016 | First Principles Series Report on Family and Marriage By Scott E. Yenor, Ph.D. Two incompatible views about marriage are vying for supremacy today in...
View ArticleThe Evolution Of Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs And The Bad Boy Family Through...
May 20 2016, 2:35 AM ET Share this article: The launch of VIBE was the definitive introduction of the power of Hip-Hop and culture to move the crowd. Before the Internet, before email, before social...
View ArticleUnderstanding Tyranny and Terror: From the French Revolution to Modern...
(Source: The Heritage Foundation) While tyranny has existed in all eras, modern democracies now face a millenarian version that seeks to impose by revolutionary force a monolithic collective in which...
View ArticleRule Britannia
Today’s parallel with feudal 1215 is the absolute dominance of a “collective monarchy”, combining the power not merely of the Westminster state but also of the corporate and financial institutions and...
View ArticleAuthors and critics select their best books of the year
WELCOME to our annual Books of the Year, in which writers and critics share their favourite reads of 2014. As always, I did not restrict the contributors to books published this year, though most of...
View Article#TBT: Inhofe Delivers 2003 Floor Speech Predicting the Inevitable Failure of...
(Source: US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works) #TBT: Inhofe Delivers 2003 Floor Speech Predicting the Inevitable Failure of the Kyoto Protocol. WASHINGTON - In 2003, U.S. Sen Jim Inhofe...
View Article27 books that can change your life forever, according to my coworkers
Books can be incredibly powerful. They have the ability to suck us in, take us on adventures, and influence the way we think. They can teach us, move us, give us new perspectives, and help shape us....
View ArticleEgyptian Artist Wael Shawky on Pulling the Strings of Crusade and Jihad at...
The films of Wael Shawky's Cabaret Crusades are on view at MoMA PS1 through August 31, along with installations of selected sketches, sets and marionettes that the artist used throughout filming. For...
View ArticleThere’s No Such Thing as Free Will
For centuries, philosophers and theologians have almost unanimously held that civilization as we know it depends on a widespread belief in free will—and that losing this belief could be calamitous. Our...
View ArticleNew Atheism, Worse Than You Think
In the years since the so-called “New Atheism” burst onto the scene in the mid 2000s, the movement has not lacked for critics among nonbelievers and agnostics. Until recently, however, few of them...
View ArticleIn the Middle of an Electoral Revolution, Scalia Leaves the Plutocracy One...
The salutary rule of private life that one should not speak poorly of the recently departed does not properly apply to public persons who we know only through their public deeds. When they choose to...
View ArticleA Failure of Christian Ethics
At the heart of the crisis of the public presence of Christians in our tormented world has been their inability to offer any consistent and penetrating ethical critique of political subjugation,...
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