Andrew P. Napolitano

Hope for the dead and living, Easter’s meaning

What does Easter mean? Easter means that there's hope for the dead. If there's hope for the dead, then there's hope for the living.

March 31, 2021

Questions to consider about democracy, the Constitution and personal liberties

What if liberty and democracy are opposites? What if the principle underlying liberty is to restrain the government to maximize individual autonomy?

March 24, 2021

Violating the Constitution and the coming war on privacy

The government loves to give the impression that it has caught bad guys before they struck, thereby keeping us safe. Don't believe it.

March 17, 2021

Congress must restrict president’s power to make war

The United States is not at war with Syria. It is not at war with the militias that were bombed, and it didn't seek or have the permission of the Syrian government to enter its air space.

March 10, 2021

Silencing free speech on college campuses

Last week produced news about the suppression of speech on university campuses. There, the suppression usually occurs through the power of intimidation before the speech is given.

March 3, 2021

Do American citizens own their faces?

After listening to Dr. Anthony Fauci suggest last weekend that we should expect to be wearing two masks on our faces everywhere we go until the end of 2022, I began thinking again about first principles.

February 24, 2021

Trump, impeachment and the defiance of the Constitution

The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land, thus, all government behavior must conform to it. It is, of course, notwithstanding its supremacy, an imperfect document.

February 17, 2021

Biden and Democrats reignite the abortion wars

There have been rumblings among Democrats to make it more difficult for the Supreme Court to invalidate or permit states to gnaw away at Roe v. Wade.

February 10, 2021

American government’s surveillance kills freedom

When Justice Louis D. Brandeis referred to the right to privacy as "the right to be let alone," it was 1928.

February 3, 2021

Americans under surveillance: Defense Intelligence Agency violated Constitution

In the DIA memo, the government acknowledged for the first time that it willingly and knowingly has violated the Constitution.

January 27, 2021

Twitter and Facebook can ban any speech they want

we have seen Big Tech companies silencing their opponents. I hate when they do that, but they have every right to do so.

January 20, 2021

Did Trump commit a crime by exhorting the crowds on Jan. 6?

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie offered his understanding last weekend of President Trump's alleged role in the Capitol riots when he said, "If inciting to insurrection isn't impeachable, I don't know what is."

January 13, 2021

Personal liberty during a COVID-19 pandemic-induced experiment in totalitarianism

The concept of personal liberty is that our rights come from our humanity. If you believe in a Supreme Being, as I do and as the Declaration of Independence presupposes, then you acknowledge these rights as a gift from the Creator.

January 6, 2021

Office pool 2021: Predicting presidential shifts and Super Bowl

1) One year from now, the president of the United States will be (a) Joseph R. Biden Jr., (b) Kamala Harris, (c) Nancy Pelosi, (d) Donald Trump.

December 30, 2020

A ‘what if’ Christmas in America

What if Christmas is a core belief in a personal God who lived among us and many times offered a freely given promise of eternal salvation that no believer should reject or apologize for?

December 23, 2020

Taking Christmas seriously means humility, charity and abandonment to His will

God works in strange ways. Last weekend, two friends and I were deeply moved when we saw a theatrical production of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol."

December 16, 2020

Can President Trump pardon himself?

Most presidential pardons -- indeed all pardons that President Trump has issued -- have been for specific crimes of which the subject of the pardon has already been charged and convicted.

December 9, 2020

Freedom of religion is as threatened today as it was in 1791

Freedom of religion is not the first freedom by mistake. It was the judgment of the framers that this freedom is as essential to human fulfillment as are any other free choices that free people make.

December 2, 2020

Questions for Thanksgiving Day 2020

What if the government's true goal is to perpetuate its own power? What if the real levers of governmental power are pulled by agents and diplomats and by bureaucrats and central bankers behind the scenes?

November 25, 2020

Governors begin another wave of personal liberty attacks with COVID-19 resurgence

There is no pandemic exception to the Constitution. It is liberty that flows in our veins, not false promises of government safety.

November 18, 2020