No Fit Masters Among Us

Mankind is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his fellows. Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do ...

Earthly Kingdoms Always Perish

Several years ago the noted British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge was a guest at a breakfast in Washington, D.C. ... When he had finished his testimony, ...

Transit Troubles

Several years ago, the London Transit Authority had a problem. Buses were going right past passengers who were waiting at designated places to be picked ...

The Final Victory

Some will tell you that triumph will come by the development of human beings--the gradual evolution of their potentialities. We should just give it time, ...

Speaking with a Forked Tongue

We as a nation too often lack integrity, which might be described, in a loose and colloquial way, as the courage of one's convictions.

We, the people ...

He Preached for Us

Martin Luther King, Jr., did not come preaching something new. He came shouting something we already knew: "You have said in your own Declaration ...

Morality and Politics

Sufyan Thauri, a classical Muslim writer, once wrote, "The best of the rulers is he who keeps company with men of [religious] learning, and the worst ...

Religious Faith Is No Secret Vice

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said:

Church and state would not be such a difficult subject if religion were, as the Court apparently thinks it to ...

The Power of Sacrifice

The willing sacrifice of the innocent is the most powerful answer yet conceived by God or man to insolent tyranny.

Making Justice Weak

Justice without strength is helpless, strength without justice is tyrannical. ... Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just. ...