Politics & Rights

Today in 1787, Alexander Hamilton published the first of the Federalist essays, which helped secure ratification of the U.S. Constitution.

The Rubin Report streamed live from Harvard University last night with a wide-ranging discussion about free speech in America.

Speech not only follows from thinking; it is integral to thinking. Thus, to limit free speech is to stifle the mind, and to oppose free speech is to oppose human life.

To accept the notion that the so-called "alt-right" belongs in the same category as advocates of individual rights is to obliterate distinctions on which civilized society depends.

Treating ideas as beyond criticism is anti-liberal, and shaming people—such as Dawkins—for identifying evils inherent in Islam is un-American.

The failure of Republicans to repeal Obamacare marks yet another large-scale demonstration of how morality, not lobbying or machinations or economic arguments, controls government policy.

The lesson from Otto Warmbier's case is the same lesson that America has failed to learn for decades: You do not negotiate with dictators, tyrants, or terrorists.

Here are the questions we all should be asking in regard to the jihad against the West and our children.

The Shapiro Principle is the means to a mass movement that grounds rights, freedom, and capitalism in reason, observation, and logic.

Shows that under laissez-faire capitalism, the poor, disabled, and helpless would fare as well as is possible.