The 9/11 Attacks Exposed Major Government Failure, But Americans Learned the Wrong Lessons

Like those of us who remember the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the attacks on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon, along with the downing of Flight 93, evoke clear memories of what people were doing when they heard about the event. The news was stunning, hard to comprehend, and made people fear for the future—and perhaps that fear was justified.

Lord Acton and the Religious Foundations of Liberalism

Few questions have divided liberals over the centuries more than the place of religion in a free society. Some have seen faith as irrelevant to liberty, a separate sphere best kept sealed off entirely from politics. Others have viewed it as the very enemy of freedom, pointing to centuries of clerical repression. Still others argued that religion was useful, a prop to social cohesion for a regime of limited government.

Government Ownership of the Means of Production

A core principle of Marxism—the socialist system upon which is founded the more authoritarian political systems of communism and progressive fascism—is government ownership of the means of production. This economic policy, aimed as a dagger at capitalism, happens to be the avant garde economic policy position taken a couple of times now by the Trump administration. It is the same position advocated in the larger context by the self-described communist candidate, Zohran Mamdani, who is running for mayor of New York City.