In the last days of East Germany, when government officials detected that their power was unraveling, they ratcheted up enforcement of the nation’s reporting laws. The reporting laws made it a felony to know of a crime and fail to report it. It was also a crime to...
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The Right to Assembly
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Apr 18, 2024 | Featured Articles
Last week, the Supreme Court effectively abolished the right to assembly in three Southern states. By refusing to hear an appeal of a speaker accused of being liable for what a protester did in an audience the speaker addressed, the court exposed all protest...
The CIA Wants More Power to Spy on Americans!
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Apr 11, 2024 | Featured Articles
Americans need to be aware of the unbridled propensity of federal intelligence agencies to spy on all of us without search warrants as required by the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. These agencies believe that the Fourth Amendment -- which protects the...
The Government Attacks the Freedom of Speech
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Apr 4, 2024 | Featured Articles
“I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”-- Voltaire (1694-1778) Holy Week was not a good week for personal liberty as governments throughout the United States engaged in direct and subtle attacks on free speech....
Taking Easter Seriously
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Mar 28, 2024 | Featured Articles
“That God, which ever lives and loves,One God, one law, one element,And one far-off divine eventTo which the whole creation moves.”-- Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) When American colonists were oppressed by British governance, the word most frequently uttered in...
Can Congress Ban TikTok?
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Mar 21, 2024 | Featured Articles
“Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech.” --First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution When James Madison set about to draft the Bill of Rights -- the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution -- he was articulating what lawyers and...
My Dinner With the Pope
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Mar 14, 2024 | Featured Articles
I spent last week living and studying at the Vatican as a guest lecturer at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, or PASS. PASS is an organization of scholars that explores ideas of interest to the Vatican. Last week, PASS addressed the philosophy of St. Thomas...
Taking Rights Seriously
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Mar 7, 2024 | Featured Articles
“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion,Mankind would be no more justifiedIn silencing that one person,Than he, if he had the power,Would be justified in silencing mankind.” -- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) The world is filled with self-evident truths --...
The Torturers’ Poor Memories
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Feb 29, 2024 | Featured Articles
As the pre-trial hearings in the case of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and others who are charged with masterminding the 9/11 attacks proceed at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, the government continues to stumble with its own witnesses. In hearings last week,...
Donald Trump and Government Theft
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Feb 22, 2024 | Featured Articles
“Where there is a wrong, there is a remedy." -- Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870-1938) Last week, a New York court ordered the Trump Organization and its principals -- including the former President -- to forfeit nearly $400 million to the state government. This...
Government and Death
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Feb 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
When the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche proclaimed that God was dead, he didn’t mean it literally, as that would have been impossible. He meant that God’s creatures have so failed to acknowledge Him and relate to Him, it is as if He decided to end His own...
Taking Free Speech Seriously
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Feb 8, 2024 | Featured Articles
Can the government prevent Big Tech from censoring political and cultural voices on their platforms? Can the government regulate these platforms to compel speech the government wants to hear and to prevent speech it believes may harm innocents? If you believe -- as I...
The Feds Are Buying Our Emails!
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Feb 1, 2024 | Featured Articles
“The Framers ... conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men.” -- Justice Louis Brandeis (1856-1941) While we are all consumed with Joe Biden’s bumblings and Donald...
Government by Experts
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jan 25, 2024 | Featured Articles
I have often thought that after Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson was our worst president. By worst is meant least faithful to the Constitution and most destructive of personal liberty. With the exception of Lincoln’s dictatorship -- during which the federal government...
The Emperor’s New Clothes
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jan 18, 2024 | Featured Articles
Just as a fictional emperor paid his tailors a fortune for clothes that no one could see, and then marched naked in a grand public procession while his subjects roared with laughter, so, too, is President Joe Biden attempting to march clothed with the Constitution he...
Milk and the Police State
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jan 11, 2024 | Featured Articles
Last week, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, state troopers and investigators executed a search warrant on the farm of Amos Miller. Miller has been producing fresh unadulterated dairy products and grass-fed beef for 40 years. He does not sell to the public. Rather,...
Nikki Haley, American History and Intellectual Honesty
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Jan 4, 2024 | Featured Articles
When Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley answered a question last week in which she stated that the American Civil War was fought over "government,” “rights” and “freedoms," she was correct. Yet, like most politicians, when she realized that the popular...
In Defense of Free Speech and Free Silence
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Dec 14, 2023 | Featured Articles
“I disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it.” -- Voltaire (1694-1778) When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, he included in it a list of the colonists’ grievances with the British government. Notably absent...
American Hubris
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Dec 7, 2023 | Featured Articles
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.” -- Hosea 8:7 The debacle of the nearly 20-year American occupation of Afghanistan continues in Joe Biden’s America today. This disaster began when President George W. Bush -- stung deeply by the...
Hey, Mike Johnson: It’s the Constitution You’re Trashing!
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Dec 1, 2023 | Featured Articles
The right to privacy -- to be left alone, to engage in personal behavior and communications immune from government regulation or surveillance, to be yourself -- is a fundamental human right that we all exercise every day. It is also a constitutional right since it is...
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