When I was a child, growing up behind the Iron Curtain in East Berlin, I had a neighbor friend who would get “care packages” from her aunt on the West side of the city. She would always receive such beautiful toys,...
Blog posts in constitution
Recently, Intellectual Takeout sponsored a survey asking moms and Gen-Y what they thought about various national security, energy, and, to a degree, Constitutional issues such as electromagnetic pulse attacks, Sharia...
Posted by: Devin Foley on September 14, 2011
You probably have heard by now that our federal and state fiscal health is in shambles. If not, then you’ll want to learn all about it...
Posted by: Anja Hartleb on March 2, 2011
Looking back on the era of segregation, the idea seems absurd to those of us who have only known a post-race America. Most of us under forty went to school with folks of a wide variety of colors, creeds, religions,...
Posted by: Devin Foley on January 17, 2011
There is much talk about property rights, especially these days as politicians, bureaucrats and special interests stake a nearly unlimited claim on our incomes. But one dimension of property rights rarely gets...
Posted by: Anja Hartleb on September 24, 2010
At FIRE’s annual 2010 Campus Freedom Network conference, Jonathan Rauch gave an insightful and engaging keynote address on the issue of censoring...
Posted by: Anja Hartleb on August 26, 2010
In the debate over what the American government ought and ought not to do, no constitutional phrase has perhaps wrought more controversy among the learned (i.e. academics) and not so learned (i.e. politicians) than...
Posted by: Anja Hartleb on August 24, 2010
Termed by legal scholars Robert Levy and William Mellor as one of the “Dirty...
Posted by: Anja Hartleb on July 30, 2010
Living today, it’s difficult for us to fully comprehend just how radical and unique America is in world history. There is nothing quite like it, nor is it likely that there will be another America until we start...
Posted by: Devin Foley on July 9, 2010
Back in 2010, the UK’s Daily Mail reported on a study by Yale University psychologists which points to the chance that six month old babies know the difference between good and evil....
Posted by: Devin Foley on May 17, 2010