Moms for Liberty is a civil rights organization founded by mothers. The nonprofit often speaks out against sex-education policies that target children. Yet this moms’ association was recently labeled an extremist organization by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). We speak with Tiffany Justice, co-founder of Moms for Liberty, on their fight for parents’ rights….

Commentary Here we are on the Fourth of July 2023 wondering what has become of American liberty. On this very day, a federal judge in Texas has shown us that the cause is not hopeless. In a tremendous victory for free speech, the Bill of Rights, and freedom generally, Judge Terry A. Doughty has issued…

The most efficient way of creating a monopoly is to secure government assistance that blocks competition from entering a specific economic arena. This can lead to a lack of economic opportunity and growth individually and corporately, but what happens when private industry and the government coordinate against the people’s liberty—the liberties enshrined in the Constitution?…

The lights are never off in prison, so Catherine Engelbrecht lost her sense of time; she thinks it was the early morning hours when she stood in line at the Montgomery Processing Center, a Conroe, Texas immigration detention prison, awaiting an uncomfortable medical assessment. Engelbrecht founded the election-monitoring organization True the Vote in 2010, and…

“Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man” is a saying attributed to St. Ignatius of Loyola. “Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted” is credited to Vladimir Lenin. Despite their radically opposed worldviews, both the Jesuit…

Commentary From the beginning of the COVID panic, it felt that something was very wrong. Never had a pandemic, much less a seasonal pathogenic wave, been treated as a quasi-military emergency requiring the upending of all freedoms and rights. What made it more bizarre was how alone those of us who objected felt until very…

The popular phrase “Speak truth to power” implies that power is hostile to truth and that power might benefit from listening to truth. It also suggests that the speaker runs some risk for speaking it. People who are unafraid to speak truth to power are among the great heroes of history. They raise our standards…

Commentary Sometimes, even now, even after writing a book and probably a thousand or more articles on the topic, and following it every step of the way, it still feels like I dreamed the whole thing. Not a good dream but a nightmare of exceptionally dark attacks on freedom. It got so bad that online…

Commentary There are a number of reasons many young people shy away from conservatism. The most obvious is that they have been exposed only to left-wing values—from elementary school through graduate school, in the movies, on television, on social media, and now even at Disneyland. Less obvious but equally significant is that they have never…

The Pledge of Allegiance states that America is “one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Liberty, the dictionary says, is living free from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life, behavior, or political views. Pennsylvania author Barry Durmaz says he is living his life in liberty. That means,…