Articles
In-depth analysis and commentary on America's founding principles.
Natural Rights and the Declaration of Independence
How Locke's philosophy of natural rights shaped Jefferson's most famous words and the founding of a nation.
April 28, 2026
The Architecture of Limited Government
The framers' deliberate design to constrain federal power through enumerated powers, separation, and checks and balances.
April 15, 2026
Rule of Law: America's Most Radical Idea
From Magna Carta to the Fourteenth Amendment — why no one, not even a president, is above the law.
April 5, 2026
Clarence Thomas and the Case for Originalism
Justice Thomas's decades-long commitment to reading the Constitution as its framers understood it — and why it matters today.
March 22, 2026
Progressivism and the Rise of the Administrative State
How the Progressive Era transformed American governance and what the founders would have made of it.
March 10, 2026
The First Amendment's Original Meaning
What freedom of speech and press meant in 1791 — and how that understanding holds up in the digital age.
February 28, 2026