Right next to our college in India stood a temple dedicated to Rani Sati, a woman who committed sati—ritual self-immolation—sometime between the 13th and 17th centuries. The vagueness of the date is telling: Indians—like much of the Third World—did not historically maintain systematic records. The British compiled much of what is known about India’s past, […]
The Libertarian History of the LGBTQ Movement Political Research Associates Read More Article from “libertarian” – Google News
Voters have always supported the politicians who they have recognized are offering the most freedom. George Washington’s Federalist Party offered the force to keep the British government away. Thomas Jefferson’s Republican Party offered continuing independence but also more freedom than the war-supporting Federalists. Andrew Jackson’s and Martin Van Buren’s Democratic Party offered smaller governments, no […]
Trump and his bosses in Tel Aviv has taken one step closer to World War III. Although Trump has negotiated a ceasefire with Tehran, it is only a temporary solution, not an end to the war that the US and Israel have started themselves. The purpose of the ceasefire between Iran and Israel is to […]
As a result of recent conversations, my life-long closest friend Diego wrote the following. If you’re lucky as we are, you have such a friend whose interests and thoughts match yours so closely that it seems that you were separated at birth in a dream. We both felt from the days of our youth when […]
The Rise of a Libertarian Left? National Review Read More Article from “libertarian” – Google News
States Rights has been a dominant theme in American history. We all know about the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, the Tariff of Abominations, the War Between the States, the battle over the civil rights movement, and so on. But I’m not going to rehash American history in this week’s column. Instead, I’m going to ask […]
Today, Planned Parenthood challenged the constitutionality of the Big Beautiful Bill, which cuts funding for the organization. Planned Parenthood chose the District of Massachusetts. The Motion for a TRO was fifty-three pages long. According to press reports, the District Court granted the ex parte TRO within a few hours. (ECF should really start including time […]
Donald Trump has claimed that American banks are not allowed to do business in Canada, which isn’t true, but the US banks would love to have a bigger piece of the financial pie in Canada, since commercial banks are some of the most profitable businesses in Canada. And banks have an obvious advantage: it’s easier […]
So, then, what is Christian Culture? What does it look like? Are there certain defining features that distinguish it from what passes for culture these days? And if so, how are we to recognize them? What it is, at the deepest level, is an answer to the question raised by the Hebrew psalmist in a […]