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Remembering Gordon Wood, 1933-2026
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and American historian Gordon Wood (1933-2026) delivered a 2007 speech for the John Locke Foundation on key lessons from the American Revolution.
Opinion
NC birthed American forestry. But was the Biltmore model flawed from the start?
The idea that Pinchot and Schenck saved America’s forests is hard to quash, but many analysts think that the sustained-yield policy set the Forest Service on the wrong track.
Opinion
Shooting should shock the conscience
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump presents Americans with a momentous choice. In this moment, we can step back from the precipice of disaster.
Opinion
Stop pushing political panic buttons
Remember when rapid automation was going to render large swaths of the workforce unemployed? Politicians and other professional worrywarts warned that robots would displace production workers, that self-driving vehicles and drones would displace truckers and delivery personnel, and the algorithms and kiosks would displace service and managerial employees. Radical responses such as universal basic income...
Opinion
Dismantling Thomas Jefferson and other outrageous stories
Below are a few of the stories that caught my attention this week. The left’s fascination with canceling American figures — including the author of our Declaration of Independence — continues. The inability to contextualize history is a scary ideology and reminds me a little of the Khmer Rouge and their utopian quest for year...
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N.C. Republicans quiet about Trump’s plans for new political party
Days after leaving office, former President Donald Trump has reportedly floated the idea of forming his own political party. The new party, potentially called the Patriot Party, would severely divide the GOP and make it difficult for conservatives to win elective office in many parts of North Carolina. So far, N.C. Republicans are staying silent...
Opinion
The left’s long war on the Constitution
The United States was founded on the principle that government exists to protect the natural rights of the governed, including, especially, the natural right to liberty. The Declaration of Independence says so explicitly. The Constitution — signed 233 years ago today — is clearly an attempt to give practical expression to that principle. The Constitution...
Opinion
The Constitution and its enemies
The Constitutional Convention delegates who assembled in Philadelphia in 1787 understood that preventing bad or incompetent rulers from doing too much damage was an important part of their task.
Opinion
Darn that pesky old Constitution
Long gone are the days when the political left stood firmly in defense of fundamental protections included in the Bill of Rights.
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2016 Election Bound to Produce More Excitement
The 2016 presidential election campaign already has generated plenty of excitement. Veteran presidential campaign reporter John Gizzi expects more.
Opinion
Ohio Transplant Tourgee Influenced Reconstruction-Era N.C.
Early civil-rights advocate Albion Tourgee was a successful judge, litigator, and fiction writer.
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Friday Interview: Coolidge Shrank Government While Economy Grew
RALEIGH — As Americans continue to struggle with a sluggish economy, policymakers could learn useful lessons from a president who served in office more than 80 years ago. That’s the view of Amity Shlaes, director of the Four Percent Growth Project at the George W. Bush Center, nationally syndicated columnist, and author of three New York Times best-sellers, including a biography of the 30th American president, Calvin Coolidge. Shlaes outlined Coolidge’s successful record for a recent John Locke Foundation Headliner event. She also discussed Coolidge during an interview with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
