POLITICS

How Charlie Kirk Inspired a Generation

America was founded on the principle that we are free to disagree, and Charlie embodied that. Through respectful debate, he showed that people of all backgrounds and beliefs can stand firm in their convictions while still recognizing one another’s humanity. He lived that belief every single day.

Virginia’s Father’s Wisdom

Soon I'll write to Virginia's Governor George Allen demanding that he keeps the faith with his predecessors who, in 1788, ratified the Constitution and brought Virginia into the Union. Let's do some thinking out loud about this letter just to make sure my reasoning is...

Praise for America’s Unsung Heroes

How about a mini-Williams autobiography? From exceedingly humble beginnings, I am now in the top one percent of income-earners. How did that come about? Did someone see me walking around North Philadelphia and say, "Williams, I'm going to make you well off."? That...

Attacking the Heart of Medicine

Attacking the Heart of Medicine

One vital fact was omitted in the news accounts about the success of Boris Yeltsin's recent heart surgery: the failure of socialized medicine. And this fact underscores the question of whether America's health-care policies are courting a similar failure. Competent...

Cherishing Property Rights

Making our value premises explicit and clear can help untangle contentious public policy issues, or at least let us know where people stand. Let's state my personal value premise. I cherish private property rights. "Okay," you say, "but what are private property...

Hating Bad Government

At the time of the Oklahoma City bombing, Bill Clinton chastised those Americans who loved their country but hated their government. That's a morally blind statement at best. After all would Clinton have said that to Germans who loved their country but hated the Nazi...

What to Do about Terrorism

What to Do about Terrorism

Imagine the following situation: A roving homicidal maniac runs amok in your neighborhood, spraying bullets in all directions, killing your wife and wounding you. Frantically, you call the police. "This is terrible," they say. "We will take drastic new steps to...

Civility Toward Government

Retiring Senator William Cohen (R. Maine) was interviewed by Washington, D.C.'s WAMU-radio's talk show host Diane Rehm. He talked about the changing political climate both in Congress and the nation. Cohen lamented how American traditional skepticism toward Congress...

Elite Costs

It's amazing how we listen to people who've been dead wrong time after time. In 1975, the Environmental Fund took out full-page ads warning, "The World as we know it will likely be ruined by the year 2000 . . . World food production cannot keep pace with the galloping...

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