Riley Parr: Americans recognize something isn’t right
Whether we can—or even want—to discover the root causes and fix them remains to be seen.
Whether we can—or even want—to discover the root causes and fix them remains to be seen.
These adherents’ focus is to use the law in an attempt to manufacture equality across all spheres of life.
Looking to government to solve every ill should not be the first course of action.
The paradox of the left is that, in reality, its adherents are the proponents of trickle-down ideology.
In spite of general attitudes about my generation, some millennials are taking matters into their own hands—and doing it quite well.
Particularly for those right of center, successfully convincing the electorate of the benefits of conservative policies often depends on how an issue is presented.
Democrats have given Republicans the best possible motivation to turn out and vote.
History has shown you gain many more people to your side with a quick, humorous retort than personal vilification.
Support for an ideology with such an abysmal track record to date is astounding.
I’m not arrogant enough to think only conservative jurists should be on the Supreme Court.
If nobody takes over the difficult and sometimes thankless task of making the case for how conservatism’s core principles apply to new situations, how can the philosophy continue to be a force that fights for individual liberty and opportunity regardless of one’s starting place in life?
Over-the-top hit pieces might win a candidate the battle, but lose the war.
For some, research on a specific topic, or perhaps a particular dogma, is the reason why they became professors.
Freedom is messy. That is not to say we should sit idly back and say, ‘That’s just the way it is.’
It may well be that the Supreme Court rights the … ship when this issue finally makes its way to the nation’s highest court.
The freedom-through-government-regulation argument has never made much sense.
We could, I suppose, dispense with these constitutional protections and simply hold a people’s court by which an individual is found guilty or liable based solely on how a group feels on any given day or predicated on accusations alone. I’m not a lawyer yet, but I think that’s called mob justice.
Why not give a child an opportunity he or she might otherwise have never had?
Some professors are more interested in telling students what to think, than in how to think.