A note from Dr Larry Arn, President, Hillsdale College: The 4th of July cover article of Time magazine claims that the Constitution is irrelevant. Frightening. As proof of its irrelevance, Time lists a dozen products of modern society inconceivable to the framers, including antibiotics, “sexting,” and Medicare. The Constitution’s only virtue, they say, is that it has many meanings and thus leaves us able to do whatever we want to

— And that’s what it is, Independence Day — the day we declared our unwillingness to answer to the arbitrary whims of a centralized authority, the day we demanded our unalienable rights be recognized. “Distributional justice” is just another way of declaring that what’s yours isn’t truly yours — that man, in the form of government or a (“democratic”) mob, has decided that he owns the fruits of your labor