Equity Is Not Equality
by Mark BauerleinHarry G. Hutchison joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Requiem for Reality: Critical Race Theocrats and Social Justice Dystopia. Continue Reading »
Defeating the Equity Regime
by Frank ResartusIt is useless, for now, to predict where the six-justice conservative majority on the Supreme Court may be heading. But one possibility is worth noting: If the majority holds firm on just a handful of constitutional questions, it can decisively defeat what I call the coercive equity regime. The . . . . Continue Reading »
Woke “Rights,” the Equality Act, and Speaker Pelosi
by George WeigelOn February 25, by a vote of 224-206, the House decided to criminalize Genesis 1:27 by passing the “Equality Act.” Continue Reading »
The Equality Act’s Assault on Religious Liberty
by Kenneth CraycraftThe Equality Act is the uncompromising legislative imposition of a destructive social ideology. Continue Reading »
Another Narrative
by Robert BenneThe story of the last fifty years is a lot more complicated than the narrative of oppression and systemic racism. Continue Reading »
What Makes Us Equal
by F. H. BuckleyAfter the 2016 election, when white working-class voters turned out for Donald Trump, the New York Times and the Washington Post sent their reporters to the hinterlands of Pennsylvania and West Virginia to see just what had happened. And off they went, like D.C. commuters sent . . . . Continue Reading »
The Ignoble Lie
by Patrick J. DeneenDuring one of the more infamous moments in Plato’s Republic, Socrates suggests that the ideal city needs a founding myth—what he calls “a noble lie”—to ensure its success. The myth has two parts. The first relates that every person in the city comes from the same mother, and . . . . Continue Reading »
If There’s No God, Are Humans Equal?
by Christopher KaczorIn Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality, Danielle Allen provides an informative, line-by-line, sometimes word-by-word, philosophical interpretation of the founders’ document. Allen offers the case that the Declaration of Independence is a syllogism for political equality, rather than a manifesto of unlinked assertions. “Premise 1,” she writes: Continue Reading »
The Hipster and the Organization Man
by Wilfred M. McClayFrom all appearances, it is now back in style to be critical of American individualism. Indeed, that critique has never gone entirely out of style, and for very good reasons. But views on these matters also seem to follow cycles which, if not of Schlesingerian predictability, are nevertheless . . . . Continue Reading »
White Firefighters, Hank Aaron, and Affirmative Action
by Richard E. DuncanJust when the Supreme Court is beginning to reconsider “affirmative action” plans that provide preferences on the basis of race, the Secretary of Education, Lamar Alexander, has decided, at least pending further review, to throw his weight behind “minority” scholarships that discriminatorily . . . . Continue Reading »
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