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What Clarence Thomas Told Us in Texas
Thomas said our calling as Americans is to live the Constitution’s principles, not revise them. When Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas took the stage recently at the University of Texas at Austin to deliver a speech…
Yale Finally Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
Yale’s Committee on “Trust in Higher Education” just released what higher-education reformers have to view as a remarkable document. It addresses the ongoing erosion of public trust in America’s universities. In doing so, it…
Justice Thomas’ take on America’s 250th birthday
Yuval Levin assesses US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ recent Texas speech honoring America’s milestone birthday. Thomas criticizes the counter-constitutional ideas of some of the original progressives, particularly…
Analyzing Thomas’ takedown of progressivism
Tyler O’Neil writes for the Daily Signal about a significant pronouncement from a leading voice of conservative judicial thought. This week, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas celebrated America’s 250th anniversary by…
Life, liberty, and property
John Locke and our nation’s Founders all centered the protection of property rights as a key reason for the creation of governments Eminent domain abuse continues to threaten property rights North Carolina is particularly…
Historian Wood touts value of America as ‘creedal’ nation
Noted historian Gordon Wood explains the value of America’s unique circumstances as a nation. There has been some talk recently that we aren’t and shouldn’t be a creedal nation—that beliefs in a creed are too permissive, too…
New episode of Burns’ “The American Revolution” airs tonight
Last night, PBS began airing Ken Burns’ documentary, “The American Revolution” and will continue at 8 p.m. tonight with a new episode each night for the next five nights. Covering the period from May 1775 to July 1776,…
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