Real rights are like Magna Carta: restraints on state power. Too many people today understand the word "rights" to mean baubles and trinkets a gracious sovereign bestows on his subjects - "free" health care, "free" community college, "safe spaces" from anyone saying anything beastly - all of which require a massive, coercive state regulatory regime to enforce.Read more here.
Security of the person, property rights, religious freedom, due process... The core animating principles of modern free societies began in that muddy field in Runnymede eight centuries ago. That's why it's the most important anniversary of the year: when the pampered, solipsistic beneficiaries of an 800-year inheritance start to lose the habits of liberty, only darkness lies ahead. Better to re-learn the old lessons while we still can.
Monday, June 22, 2015
An 800-year inheritance
Mark Steyn wrote a column this week honoring the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta.
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