Why Liberals Fear the State Department’s Review of Human Rights
“Every human law has just so much of the nature of law as is derived from the law of nature,” Thomas Aquinas wrote. “But if at any point it deflects from the law of nature, it is no longer a law but a perversion of the law.”
This Supreme Court Case Threatens the Left’s View of Group Identity, Victimhood
Oral arguments heard at the Supreme Court Tuesday were ostensibly about whether the 2020 census could include a question about citizenship.
Pompeo Is Right on Sovereignty. His Council on Foreign Relations Critic Is Wrong.
Stewart Patrick of the Council on Foreign Relations didn’t much like Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s sovereignist speech on Dec. 4, and he lets you know it.
How Censorship by Facebook Reinforces This Writer’s Point on Liberals’ Intolerance
Less than a third of the way into his upcoming book on nationalism, Israeli philosopher and scholar Yoram Hazony warns about the growing censorship constricting debate in Western societies when the opinion in question runs counter to the views of politically correct liberalism.
Census Bureau Has Been Co-Opted by Leftist Ideologues
“Are you an American or not?”
Time for Trump’s Choice, Not Obama’s, to Run Our Global Broadcasting
If war is the continuation of diplomacy by other means, public diplomacy is a theater where states use ideas instead of ordnance.
Hungary’s Experiment Could Rebuild a Sense of Nation in Europe
Hungary’s maverick prime minister, Viktor Orban, is once again stirring the pot of goulash.
What Trump Should Say on Cinco de Mayo
President Donald Trump is famously difficult to write speeches for, and his relationship with Mexican-Americans has been strained by comments made, so any speechwriter crafting an address for Cinco de Mayo would have a challenge. Having worn this hat at the State Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission during the George W. Bush administration, this is the advice I’d give him:
Why the US Must Befriend Hungary’s Populist Leader
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban won a convincing majority in Sunday’s parliamentary election. Even the day before the election, The Guardian was all too pleased to showcase the left’s apoplexy by running the headline “Hungary’s war on democracy is a war on democracy everywhere.”
Europe’s War on Free Speech
Any American who ever questions whether the First Amendment is vital to protect free speech should just cast a glance across the Atlantic. Europeans share the same values we do–indeed our concept of rights derives from European philosophers–and yet they often adopt misguided laws that circumscribe freedom of expression.
With Census Move, Trump Administration Strikes a Blow Against Identity Politics
Americans who are sick of identity politics and yearn for a return to the unifying notion of E Pluribus Unum will cheer the Census Bureau’s recent move to reject changes to the decennial survey that were proposed by the Obama administration.