If Government Grants Rights Then It Can Take Them

Send us Fan Mail The whole week collapses into one uncomfortable question: are your rights something you’re born with, or something you’re “allowed” to have? We start with Clarence Thomas’s natural-rights framing and the Declaration of Independence, then trace how that single premise rewires every modern fight, from speech and self-defense to property and privacy. If government is the source of rights, then every freedom becomes a revocable setting in a policy menu. That’s why Julian Assange...