Opinion

The founders created America as a new nation that was a union between 13 separate states. The states produced the federal government. In our times, for nearly a half-century, the Supreme Court took the contentious issue of abortion out of the hands of the states (out of the hands of “we the people”) through Roe […]

The rule of law was very important to the founders of America. In fact, because he was committed to the rule of law, founding father John Adams took the unpopular stance in 1770 to defend some British soldiers who were involved in the Boston Massacre. At that trial he famously said, “Facts are stubborn things.” […]

Our founders said that our rights come from the Creator—and the first of these rights is the right to life. But for the last half-decade, abortion has undermined the right to life in America. How can we recapture a culture of life? The Tomas More Society is on the cutting edge of fighting for the […]

Just about every week seems to bring some new attack on American history. Now at Cornell, an Ivy League School, a bust of Abraham Lincoln has been removed from the library, along with a display of his Gettysburg Address. Writing for The College Fix (6/28/22), editor-in-chief Jennifer Kabbany notes, “Someone complained, and it was gone.” […]

Tragically, slavery has been around from the beginning of time. It is still practiced even today in some places where Christianity is not dominant or has not been dominant. But while slavery was a fact of life in the 1700’s—not only in colonial America, but all over the world—it was the system put in place […]