The Forgotten Founder You Need to Read

This Founding Father played an instrumental role in shaping the First Amendment . . . warned against factions and uneducated citizens . . . and died on the 4th of July.

Think you know him?

Think again.

Writing in The American Conservative, Stephen B. Tippins Jr. introduces you to the life and thought of Fisher Ames—one of our nation’s first, most brilliant, and unjustly forgotten conservative statesmen.

A leading Federalist and Massachusetts congressman, Ames “displayed more promise than perhaps any of our other great statesmen.”

He was deeply skeptical about democracy with its potential to be “licentious and mobbish.”

And he wrote movingly and well on the role of government in cultivating a virtuous, patriotic citizenry.

He’s a thinker today’s anti-government conservatives need to heed, Tippins argues.

If we forget why men leave the state of nature . . . or what our democratic natures tend toward . . . we risk the national crises that Ames forewarned.

The Destruction of the Temple

A woman named Jewel Shuping hired a psychologist to pour drain cleaner into her perfectly healthy eyes.

Why? Because she “identified” as blind . . . and sought “treatment” for her “Body Integrity Identity Disorder.”

In First Things, Bethel McGrew asks the obvious question: Is that a crime?

It certainly looks like medical malpractice—a doctor irresponsibly and irrevocably mutilating the body of a mentally sick person.

But that leads us straight down the most dangerous of rabbit holes . . .

Namely: if such physician-assisted mutilation is criminal . . . how exactly is it different from sex transition surgery?

An awful lot of people—even conservatives—“take a laissez-faire approach to adult sex changes.”

But as the medical profession rushes vulnerable adults and even children into irreversible bodily destruction, McGrew argues, laissez-faire isn’t good enough.

“We must not be silent,” she declares.

Do you agree?

American Economic Forum: July 29-30, Washington, D.C.

ISI invites you to our 2022 American Economic Forum, to be held July 29-30 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C., to hear leading conservative politicians, intellectuals, and thought leaders debate the best way for conservatives in 2022 to apply fundamental economic principles to our current crises.

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Faith of Our Founders

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