SocietyCommentary
Freedom Requires Discipline—and We’ve Forgotten How to Teach It
Few things feel as American as a packed stadium singing about the land of the free—marching bands blaring, flags waving, the easy confidence of a… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The Importance of Religious Liberty and the Anthropology of Republicanism
The current American political landscape overflows with sharp conflict and disdainful rhetoric. The norm for American political discourse has alarmingly mutated from spirited good-faith debate… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Next Church of Latter-Day Saints President is a Fierce Defender of Religious Liberty
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, previously known as the Mormon Church, lost its leader over the weekend, and his replacement is a… Read More
Society Commentary
A Reminder of What the 4th of July Means
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see… Read More
LawCommentary
Get the Flock Out
The Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures does not say that the government cannot search your house. Instead, it lays boundaries that officials… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Patriots’ Day—and Why It Still Matters
“LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous work begins. Longfellow wrote the poem in… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Left Has No Respect for God, Country, or History–Including Patrick Henry
Three years ago I wrote about what a spine-tingling feeling it was to attend a recreation of Patrick Henry’s fiery “Give me liberty, or give… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Attacks on Religious Freedom Continue Despite Washington’s Rhetoric
Thomas Jefferson’s resume is hard to beat. At 23, he was serving in the Virginia Colonial Legislature and, within a decade, he was in the… Read More
International Analysis
Whatever Happened to Those Pro-Democracy Protests in Cuba?
Thousands of Cubans took to the streets in July to protest the country’s communist government. But since then, two months later, we have heard very… Read More
EducationCommentary
Court’s College Pronoun Ruling Is Win for Right to Affirm Reality, Speak Freely
The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled recently in favor of philosophy professor Nicholas Meriwether’s First Amendment rights at Shawnee State University—and rightly so…. Read More
InternationalCommentary
UN Human Rights Council Disappoints Yet Again
The U.N. Human Rights Council last week appointed China to its Consultative Group in spite of Beijing’s deplorable record on human rights. The five-member body… Read More
SocietyNews
Rare Civil War Vestige Memorializes the Little-Known Story of African American Soldiers
A rare artifact of the Civil War that was carried into battle by an African American regiment has been purchased at a historic price by… Read More
LawCommentary
Why the ‘Free the Nipple’ Win in Court Is a Loss for Women
A federal appeals court thinks there’s no difference between a man’s bare chest and a woman’s naked chest—and, despite what some feminists are saying, that’s… Read More
LawCommentary
The Origins of ‘Hate Speech’
Intolerance and illiberalism, nakedly defined as abstractions or principles, are seldom if ever outwardly embraced by progressives. None but the most extreme will argue that… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
What Made Reagan a Truly Great Communicator
In his 1989 farewell address to the American people, President Ronald Reagan corrected the simplistic notion that he was simply a great communicator by saying:… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The New York Times Left Socialism’s Role Out of Its Report on Venezuela’s Devastation
Kudos to The New York Times—yes, The New York Times—for running an excellent, detailed story on the mass starvation and economic catastrophe taking place in… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
He Knows Communism Well. It’s What Made Him a Conservative.
If you consider yourself a conservative, have you ever thought about why? How would you answer someone who asked you to explain the reason? Maybe… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Trump Defends the West
There is something about a crisis and a foreign venue that brings out the best in an American president. In June 1963, when the Berlin… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Remembering Kate O’Beirne
I first met Kate O’Beirne, my new colleague at the Department of Health and Human Services, in 1986. At the time she was the deputy… Read More
