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  • On Illegal Immigrants Voting in November’s Election

    On Illegal Immigrants Voting in November’s Election5

    Will illegal immigrants be voting in November’s presidential election? The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database has tallied over 1,500 proven instances of voter fraud, including almost 1,300 criminal convictions and 26 judicial findings on the matter. A sizeable number of these cases involved voting by individuals who are not U.S. citizens. However, the question is

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  • On Free Speech, 40% of Americans Are Closer to the Chinese Government’s Interpretation than the Founders

    On Free Speech, 40% of Americans Are Closer to the Chinese Government’s Interpretation than the Founders0

    Reason Magazine asked students at the University of Southern California to define “hate speech.”  Among the students surveyed, Reason found plenty of wannabee dictators eager to offer their definitions of hate speech and ready to make it a crime. The lines students drew between what was or was not hate speech were arbitrary. The statement “Muslims shouldn’t be

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  • On Contentment and Ceaseless Prayer

    On Contentment and Ceaseless Prayer27

    In American writer Wendell Berry’s novel “Hannah Coulter,” the titular character reflects as she grows older on her upbringing and her adult life. She also thinks often about her adult children, who have all moved away from their home and their widowed mother. In one significant section of reflection on the past and its failures,

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  • On Constitution Day, Don’t Forget Jury Rights

    On Constitution Day, Don’t Forget Jury Rights0

    September is a busy month for the Fully Informed Jury Association. Each year on September 5, we celebrate Jury Rights Day as our signature day of education. Jury Rights Day commemorates the 1670 trial of William Penn, which helped lay a solid foundation for jurors’ right of conscience acquittal by jury nullification. We also celebrate

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  • On Conquering White Whales: Stemming the Tide of Cultural Ignorance

    On Conquering White Whales: Stemming the Tide of Cultural Ignorance7

    Once upon a time, Moby Dick was required reading for American high schoolers. It is, after all, arguably, one of the greatest American novels ever penned. Sadly, most students today will never read Moby Dick, and sadder still, neither have, nor will, their teachers. There is something uniquely sublime about the great beast of the

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  • On Censorship and Freedom of Speech

    On Censorship and Freedom of Speech1

    The act of censorship has been around since the beginning of civilization. Historically, censorship has been spearheaded by the two most powerful social domains: government and religion. But the motivations and justifications for censorship have certainly changed over the centuries. Virtually every major era throughout human history has had to deal with censorship of one sort

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