“…all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…” Photo: Wikimedia “States don’t have rights,” Stephen Green reminds us. “Individuals do. It’s time we went about the business of restoring those rights, without alienating a huge constituency which suffered too long without them.” Green rightly argues that conservatives’ […]

Some of the links I’ve collected from around the web from July 13^th to July 21^st.

The concept of rights has been turned upside-​​down in recent years, as the traditional notion of natural rights inhering in the individual has been replaced with a Progressive understanding of rights emanating from the state.