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by Wes Westmoreland April 12 marks the 250th anniversary of a largely forgotten but significant date in American history. On this date in 1776, the Fourth Provincial Congress of North Carolina met in Halifax and unanimously passed a measure instructing its delegates to the Continental Congress to vote to declare independence from Great Britain. With …
On this episode of Words & Numbers, Polyhymnia’s James R. Harrigan and Senior Fellow Antony Davies take a hard look at partisanship and what people believe. They conclude that it is not a matter of left v. right, nor is it Democrat v. Republican. It’s the ruling class v. all of the rest of us. …
Polyhymnia Senior Fellow Jay Nordlinger interviews Gregg Nunziata, the executive director of SRL—the Society for the Rule of Law. Nunziata worked in the Justice Department. And for the Senate Judiciary Committee. And for the Senate Republican Policy Committee. And for Senator Marco Rubio. And so on. He was in the heart of the Republican legal …
After a four-week hiatus, Polymnia’s @JamesRHarrigan and Senior Fellow @antonydavies are back with episode 501 of Words & Numbers, wherein they think about four weeks’ worth of backed-up nonsense, President Trump’s leaning all over the Supreme Court during oral arguments of the birthright citizenship case, Congress’s abdication of its constitutional duties, the newly created “Guindex,” …
Polyhymnia’s @JamesRHarrigan recently joined Josh Martens on Good Morning Liberty to discuss what, if anything, we owe one another as members of society. Anarchists love to answer this question with “Nothing!” before moving on. Marxists, on the other hand, are more inclined to answer “Everything!” So what is the right answer? Finding it is trickier …
by Joshua T. KatzAmerican Enterprise Institute For New Yorkers, one hard thing about moving to Washington, D.C. is that there aren’t world-class concerts every day. Both the nation’s capital and what is sometimes called the capital of the world have outstanding museums: a great boon for my wife and me as well as for our …
by Lance Abbott People have been railing against and misrepresenting liberalism almost since its inception. And yet, despite centuries of criticism and countless illiberal attempts to undermine or redefine it, liberalism has produced more peace, more prosperity, and more egalitarianism than any social or political framework humanity has ever known. The historical record of the …
Polyhymnia COO joins Max Borders on Underthrow to discuss international things, including recent events in Iran and Venezuela. There’s no way of knowing where any of this is going to end up, but things are trending in a direction for now. https://underthrow.substack.com/p/death-to-dictators-iran-venezuela
Who decides should be obvious. Andrew Jason Cohen I recently heard Jill Lepore, professor of history at Harvard University, on The Good Fight podcast. In discussing campus culture, she expressed dismay at the fact that some of her students had refused to read the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision (1857), which she had assigned. They …
Richard Lorenc writes in the Boston Herald: “Although political conflict is inevitable, we each have the power to steer disagreements away from name-calling and rhetorical head-butting. If we want the activists and politicians to behave differently, the citizens need to behave differently as well.” Amen. And nothing will change until the citizens demand better, which …
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