Power may justly be compared to a great river. While kept within its due bounds it is both beautiful and useful. But when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it comes. If, then, this is the nature of power, let us at least do our duty, and like wise men who value freedom use our utmost care to support liberty, the only xxxxxx against lawless power, which in all ages has sacrificed to its wild lust and boundless ambition the blood of the best men that ever lived....
– Andrew Hamilton, The Trial of John Peter Zenger [1735]
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
September 11, 2025Is America Great Again Yet?
With the murder of 31-year-old noted conservative advocate Charlie Kirk, it’s worth asking an important question: Is America great again yet? My answer: Far from it. In my book, Kirk’s killing demonstrates that America is still a very sick, dysfunctional nation. Not only are there periodic killings like this one, there are also mass killings. Just recently, there was the killing of those ...
The Freedom to Fix Ourselves by Dexter Graphic
It's not the legitimate function of government to "fix" society. Individual people must figure out how to fix themselves and their relationships with each ...
Inmigración y Libertad: El heroismo de Home Depot by Jacob G. Hornberger
En este episodio de Inmigración y Libertad, Jacob descute el heroismo de Home Depot durante la tiranía en Los Angeles con la guerra anti-inmigrante de
Trump Watch: The Drug-War Racketby Jacob G. Hornberger
In this week's Trump Watch, Jacob shows how President Trump and the U.S. national-security establishment are using ...
Why Do Christians Keep Trying to Fix Public Schools? by Laurence M. Vance
The evils of public education have been well-chronicled, so I won’t beat that proverbial dead horse here. I am just wondering why Christians keep ...
