A quarter of a millennium ago, the United States was founded. Unlike other global powers of that era, which were ruled by despotic kings wielding nearly absolute authority over their subjects, the U.S. distinguished itself as the first nation in history to establish sovereignty with its people protected by a system of separate powers among […]

Protests targeting “Zionists” in America quickly crossed partisan lines. Antifa-aligned and “social justice” networks on the Left turned campuses and cities into sites of disruption and eliminationist rhetoric. Right-wing groups such as Patriot Front ran parallel actions with banners like “No Zionists in Government,” advancing antisemitic appeals inside white-nationalist programs. Both represent collectivist extremism. Fascism […]

As America emerges from its 250th anniversary, it is worth recalling what made the American experiment exceptional in the first place. The formula was never especially complicated: Our rights come from God, not government; all people possess those rights equally; government is legitimate only by the consent of the governed; and each generation bears a […]

In 2008, a majority of the Supreme Court decided that executing a man who raped his eight-year-old stepdaughter so violently that she required emergency surgery violated the Constitution’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. That’s the holding of Kennedy v. Louisiana, 554 U.S. 407. Four justices disagreed. Sixteen years later, multiple states have passed laws […]