There would be no “social” in Europe’s “social market economy” without the strictly market-friendly rules essential for economic efficiency.
Hans Eicholz
While Blackstone was a source for many, it was definitely not the only or even most important source the drafters of the Declaration had in mind.
The Times editorial board seeks to reorder American life along certain lines supposedly more in keeping with democracy and material equality.
Redefining historical facts and concepts for political ends, as Matthew Desmond does, is to incite group resentments.
Eagerness to seize upon the ideas of the killers is going to lead to mistakes, not to a remedy for the problem of mass shootings.
Is it possible that President Trump is intentionally restoring politics to the conduct of American foreign policy? John Bolton may provide a clue.
Our idea of liberty has simply become confused, even deranged.
The political would not go away, and a liberal state made itself vulnerable to the contest among groups to seize power.
Hans Eicholz is a historian and Liberty Fund Senior Fellow. He is the author of Harmonizing Sentiments: The Declaration of Independence and the Jeffersonian Idea of Self-Government (2001), and a contributor to The Constitutionalism of American States (2008).