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Is there a dark side to collecting guns?
My citizenship in the gun world can be blamed on a number of factors: a student whose persuasive essay argued that if we can ignore the Second…
Apr 21
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Ask your doctor if guns are right for you?
An article in The Atlantic by assistant editor Nancy Walecki, titled, “The Doctor Will Ask You About Your Guns Now,” has drawn the ire of gun rights…
Apr 14
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What we owe to each other
In my two previous articles on the nature of basic rights, I discussed what I see as the general concept of rights and a grounding for them in human…
Apr 8
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March 2024
Getting to the conceptual foundation
Last week, I introduced the question of how we ground our concepts of rights, with some discussion about the contrasting views of Democrats and…
Mar 25
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The grounding of natural rights
A recent reading of Leo Strauss’s Natural Right and History, an expansion in book form of lectures delivered at the University of Chicago has me…
Mar 18
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God with us: America’s natural fascism
I am sorry to have to acknowledge that Sinclair Lewis did not say—not in It Can’t Happen Here or in other works on similar themes—that “when fascism…
Mar 10
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The method of protest
Imagine yourself to be driving in some large city, on your way to work, to a first date, to a court hearing, a doctor’s appointment, or so on. Traffic…
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February 2024
What should be the punishment for writing a bad law?
Watch any video or read any article discussing the efforts of legislators to pass gun control or of judges who find such legislation to be…
Feb 25
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Civics before politics, the prerequisite of working liberal society
Still active candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination in the 2024 presidential race, Dean Phillips, drew the ire of many in said party—and the…
Feb 18
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Mamas, don’t let your crazy babies have guns
Jennifer Crumbley, mother of a teenager who killed four and injured seven at his high school in Oxford, Michigan, as been convicted of four counts of…
Feb 11
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The Preventing Private Paramilitary Activities Act of 2024: Organized violence in a civil society
Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts would like to ban private paramilitary activities. He is expressing this desire in a bill that he has introduced in…
Feb 4
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January 2024
British Labour’s effort to repress knife crime
Britain has a knife crime problem. Nearly fifty thousand incidents of violence committed with sharp instruments occurred during the last year of…
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