The Apple original series Slow Horses centers around a man who has fought two wars. The world-worn Jackson Lamb, brilliantly performed by Gary Oldman, is disheveled, indifferent, and bitter. And he’s got every right to be because he’s not only been fighting against the Soviets and numerous security threats to the UK, but has also battled the large institutional bureaucracy...

　　Connecting in the Heat of the Moment 　　By: Amanda Idleman 　　Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. - Colossians 3:12 　　At all times in our marriages, we need to connect heart-to-heart, which means connecting emotionally before anything else. 　　Have you ever had an argument...

　　The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released the February 2024 Budget and Economic Outlook, and projections look grim. This year, net interest cost—the federal government’s interest payments on debt held by the public minus interest income—stands at a staggering $659 billion in 2023 and has recently soared to about $1 trillion. Unless politicians face these facts and restrain spending, Americans...

　　Classical liberals are rightly accused of droning on about the pitfalls of state control and the hubris of planners. The reason we get so tedious about it is, well, because we’re right: Many of the problems we face are caused by overconfident planners who presume to know the way things should be run for the rest of us. From farm...

　　The Supreme Court over the last two decades has repeatedly strengthened the expanded reach of the Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses to protect the religious. At the same time, the Court has moved to reduce the weight of the Establishment Clause as a counterbalance to the reach and protections of these other clauses—a counterbalance that it obtained through a...

　　The venerable economist Milton Friedman once said, “Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change.” That’s the impulse behind Winston Churchill’s admonition (later famously echoed by Obamas chief of staff Rahm Emanuel): “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Well, welcome to the world of American higher education. Crippling tuition, bloated bureaucracies, huge rates of noncompletion, campus groupthink, DEI loyalty...

　　In early 2024 and at the height of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, the Israeli Supreme Court published the most important ruling in its history. By a narrow majority of 8 to 7, the Court struck down the constitutional amendment to Basic Law: The Judiciary. This amendment did not apply the unreasonableness doctrine to ministerial and government decisions and therefore...

　　In American memory, the communist state of East Germany lingers as a risible Cold War relic, a regimented nation whose greatest accomplishment was the construction of a 96-mile-long wall in Berlin to prevent its beleaguered citizens from escaping to the West. How could anyone live a normal life, let alone thrive, in a state that ruthlessly surveilled its captive population...

　　The signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged their “lives,” their “fortunes,” and their “sacred honor” to advance the revolutionary cause. Their lives have been the subject of innumerable biographies. Their sense of honor has been often explicated in terms of the philosophies of both collective and individual self-governance that they espoused. But much less has been written on how...

　　When I was still in single digits, I read The Murder of Robbie Wayne, Age Six. It appeared in condensed form, in Reader’s Digest, on the magazine racks in my primary school library. I probably shouldn’t have read it, realistically, but I’d become—unexpectedly—an advanced reader. My parents often wrote letters requesting permission for me to read certain books: one, I...

　　Should the bronze statue of the Rev. John Witherspoon, put up at Princeton University with great fanfare as recently as 2001, be removed from its prominent position on campus? Yes, according to a petition drafted in May 2022 by five members of the University’s Philosophy department—four graduate students and one professor—and ultimately signed by 285 people, including nine professors (seven...

　　At dark times in American political life, the art of forgiveness has unexpectedly shone through. This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of US President Gerald Ford’s unconditional pardon of his predecessor Richard Nixon, who was likely to face criminal charges such as conspiracy and obstruction of justice for his role in the Watergate affair. Many Americans felt betrayed by Nixon...