Opinion
Looking back while looking toward new year’s political battles
A 70-year-old text on political philosophy still teaches valuable lessons.
Opinion
What can (and can’t) be done about violence
The government does have a legitimate role to play in maintaining order, keeping the people safe, and punishing violent offenders. In fact, we could not enjoy our rights and freedoms without this protection.
Opinion
Ending the name game
President Joe Biden visited North Carolina’s Fort Liberty last Friday, the largest military base, not only in the nation, but in the world. He spoke with troops only a week after the base had its name changed from Fort Bragg, which had been a controversial name because Braxton Bragg had been a Confederate general and...
Opinion
Outrageous story of the week: Librarians gone wild
The latest example of how we really just can’t have nice things anymore — libraries. Popular conservative commentator David Burge summed up the pattern of the left’s cultural takeover fairly well in a famous tweet: While written in 2015, this pattern is still repeating across many institutions that conservatives at one time reflexively put their...
Opinion
The shuttering of NC’s churches is a bad sign for liberty
The statistics on religion show both affiliation with and attendance at America’s churches are plummeting. And North Carolina is feeling the effects, with church buildings shuttering across the state due to lack of members and donations. This is a dangerous sign for the future of our state. Ryan Burge — a Baptist pastor, data scientist,...
Opinion
Fighting the nationalist impulse: a defense of the local.
National conservatives understand better than most that many in our modern civilization feel uprooted and adrift. Their attempt to address the malaise of modernity gives them broader political support than is warranted. In the end, they do not apprehend the roots of the modern political crisis, and their suggested solutions would undoubtedly deepen the social...
Opinion
How politics has replaced religion in America
America has always been more religiously devout than other Western democracies. But now, like them, it has begun to secularize rapidly. And, as religion has declined, political ideology has intensified, society has fragmented, and cultural common ground has disintegrated. As a result, politics is increasingly divisive and existentially fraught. For over three decades, debates about...
Opinion
Black men speak out and demonstrate the difference between blm and BLM
If you haven’t experienced a Mark Robinson speech, you’re missing a gifted orator. Watching the Republican lieutenant governor candidate is like being transported back to an old-time revival. At a Back the Blue rally a few weeks ago, I watched him captivate the crowd with his booming voice and inspirational message about freedom and being a black...
Opinion
McGrady bill merits conservative support
The new “repeal and replace” plan for House Bill 2 won’t make everyone happy. But for conservatives, it has at least one compelling virtue: It is prudent.
Opinion
Religious Revolution at Top of the GOP
Although the Democrats consider themselves the diverse party, the array of religious beliefs represented at the top of the Republican Party demonstrates it has a “big tent” character as well.
Opinion
A Strong Federal System Offers the Best Protection Against Tyranny
RALEIGH -- With the renewed interest in state sovereignty and federalism as alternatives to the current march toward centralization, Americans forget that states can abuse power, too.
News
Panelists Examine Tainted Teaching
RALEIGH — On Nov. 1, more than 100 scholars gathered in Raleigh to discuss “What Has Become of Standards in Higher Education?” One professor said that history is now “seen almost exclusively through the lenses of race, color, and sex” and blamed easy admissions and the “anti-intellectual smog" that hovers over campuses for hampering education. Others criticized political bias, the lack of rigor in science and math, and an unwillingness to correct error — leading one English class to spend 40 minutes discussing whether John Milton wrote "Paradise Lost" in response to the French Revolution.
