The point of departure for my essay on "The Trouble with Limited Government" in the Claremont Review of Books was a National Review cover story that Senior Editor Ramesh Ponnuru wrote last November.

The Constitution was designed to give government only a limited range of powers. Yet, government, today, wields a seemingly endless measure of power over the people. It's time to ask: How limited was ...

America’s progressive left and much of the so-called new right resent the idea of limited government. They see it as a pernicious ideology that they like to call liberalism, worse, neoliberalism, and, ...

Each week, The Spokesman-Review examines one question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens. Today’s question: Name two important ideas of the Declaration ...

As evidence of claims that libertarianism holds little appeal for women, critics like to highlight limited-government cheerleading from groups or figures known for sexism, especially men's rights ...

"At what point do individual rights, as protected at the federal level, expand to the extent that state governments are non-entities?" makes the very common mistake of forgetting there are more than ...

The reality that some states will roll back abortion rights has policymakers searching for ways the government can support families more. Democrats will likely use the changing landscape to push for a ...

The New York Times‘ “1619 Project,” which aims to chronicle the history, legacy, and modern ramifications of slavery on the 400th anniversary of the first African slaves being brought to the colonies, ...

Fewer than 70 days into the new administration and some in the media are already writing and talking about the “do-nothing” Congress and presidential administration, which critics allege have yet to ...

The group behind the Arkansas abortion amendment filed a response to a request by Attorney General Tim Griffin to dismiss their lawsuit, arguing that the Arkansas secretary of state unlawfully ...

I’m old enough to remember when the Republican Party stood for limited government — when Ronald Reagan thundered “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.” Today’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Fred L. Smith Jr. Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Limited government cannot survive repeated experiments in debt ...