Boers captured the young Winston Churchill just days before his twenty-fifth birthday. The hardy Afrikaners were waging successful warfare against Britain’s imperial armies, and the capture of this ambitious aristocrat was a small but significant psychological victory. Churchill had already come under fire during the Cuban War for Independence. He had engaged the Pashtun on the Indian frontier. He had even joined the last great British cavalry charge in Sudan. But Churchill’s escapade during the Second Boer War was to be his greatest adventure yet.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. The childish playground ditty is at least partly true: Mere words cannot break an arm or bust a nose. Words can be hurtful emotionally and psychologically, but they cannot be acts of violence because they lack physicality.

Justice Antonin Scalia, an originalist, famously held that the Constitution neither permits nor prohibits abortion. On the contrary, unborn babies are “persons” within the original public meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment, and they are consequently owed due process and equal protection on constitutional grounds.

In the aftermath of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, a State Department official summed up the confused state of American intelligence when he exclaimed, “Whoever took religion seriously?”

There comes a time where gross disregard for human life and for our constitutional order should stir us from docile obedience and impel us to resistance.

Recently at Harvard Law School, there have been many discussions about marginalized populations and the role of the law in protecting the defenseless and disadvantaged. Notably absent from this discussion is that there remains a class of human beings who are still excluded from the fundamental rights guaranteed to all persons by the United States Constitution.

Since understanding political life is essential to understanding human nature, and revealing human nature is the mark of a masterful poet, great poetry like that of Shakespeare necessarily reflects political principles.

My wife and I married in 2013, joining the 9% of American 18-24 year olds who tie the knot.

The U.N. wants to force the developing world to accept the sexual revolution.

The European Commission blithely dismisses a pro-life initiative that garnered 2 million signatures.