A Shifting Border Policy
By Sophia Lee | In February 2018, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) quietly changed its mission statement, removing a description of the United States as “a nation of immigrants.” The change reflected a shift in our government’s philosophy regarding immigration from one of welcoming strangers…
Word War, World War
By Alan McLaughlin | To capitulate on pronouns is not an act of charity. It is rather the total surrender of the world, in a word. In today’s public communication climate, something as quotidian and unimpeachable as calling a girl “she” constitutes an invitation for legions of enforcers to descend in wrath upon the erring speaker. The sexual revolution’s assaults…
Odd Allies Are Coming Together to Defend Free Speech
By Kristen Waggoner | It’s amazing to see who comes to the defense of freedom when you least expect it. In July, 12 leading philosophy scholars from around the world signed on to a statement supporting freedom of thought and speech in academia, specifically as those freedoms are being undercut by gender identity ideology…
The Myth That Our Planet Faces an Overpopulation Crisis
By Barry Brownstein | The world is not in danger of being overpopulated, so why do so many insist it is? Shortly after my wife graduated from college, she joined Zero Population Growth. Looking back, she tells me it was an emotional reaction fueled by reading Paul Ehrlich’s apocalyptic claims. In his book, The Population Bomb…
Chasing the Roots of the Venezuelan Collapse
By Jorge Jraissati | In order to flourish economically, property rights must be secure and the rule of law must exist. A generation ago, Venezuela was the most advanced Latin American economy, with the largest oil reserves in the world, and with a bright future ahead. Today, it is in the deepest economic collapse in the modern history…
The U.S. is a Democratic Constitutional Republic, and Yes, It Matters
By James D. Agresti | James Madison, the father of the U.S. Constitution and primary author of the Bill of Rights, repeatedly emphasized that the United States is a “republic” and not a “democracy.” In stark contrast, Jonathan Bernstein, a Bloomberg columnist and former political science professor recently insisted…
Down Syndrome Man Makes Case for Value of All Human Life
By Nick Givas | “Fox & Friends” highlighted actor Ashton Kutcher on Thursday amid pro-choice controversy after he shared a video of a man with Down syndrome advocating how his life is worth living. “In some cases, people terminate a pregnancy because of an illness or a disease — or Down’s syndrome, in some cases,…”
Let’s Have a Real Immigration Debate
By Bill Scher | The shutdown debate can seem pointlessly semantic. President Trump wants $5 billion to begin work on a “steel barrier,” which he portrays as a generous compromise from his initial proposal of a concrete wall. Democrats say they want “border security” and have supported $1.3 billion in funds for fencing, but say they…
Pro-Choice Doctor Makes Calls for Halt to Abortions of Babies with Down Syndrome
By John Stonestreet & Roberto Rivera | A pro-choice doctor just made a case for not aborting children with Down syndrome. But his case needs to be better. By one estimate, about three-fourths of all pregnant women in the United States undergo prenatal testing to determine if their child has Down syndrome.