The State Department on Thursday unveiled a report on America’s founding principles, and the news is that what should be an easy consensus is now attacked and distorted. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last year empaneled a commission to highlight the importance of “unalienable rights” in U.S. foreign policy—and to explain how making all of politics a matter of rights can make the most fundamental liberties more difficult to secure. While Mr. Pompeo’s introductory speech took shots at progressive efforts to defame the American...

Source: Wall Street Journal July 19, 2020 21:00 UTC