Essays
Judgment / July 5, 2026
I want to make the case for something that rarely gets the respect it deserves. Federalism isn't just a polite word for states' rights or a way to keep the...
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Every schoolchild knows the moral of the Watergate story. The president is not above the law. The Supreme Court forced Richard Nixon to surrender his secret...
You have heard the proposal by now. It comes wrapped in the language of fairness and mathematical elegance. Mixed-member proportional representation. A...
Here is a truth that makes both establishment Republicans and progressive Democrats deeply uncomfortable: populism is not a political ideology. It is a raw...
Every week brings another lament from the chattering class: Why can't we all just get along? Polarization is tearing us apart. We need to find common...
Let us begin with a proposition so straightforward that a high school civics student could grasp it. The Constitution means what it says, and it says what...
There is a curious thing about constitutional conservatives. We revere the Constitution as written. We quote James Madison on limited government. We cite...
There is a quiet constitutional crime being committed in Washington, and almost no one is talking about it. It is not a scandal involving a senator's stock...
Ten years after the hysteria, the real story of Citizens United v. FEC remains largely untold. The popular narrative is a fairy tale for the progressive...
The debate over term limits for Congress has become a tired ritual. Every election cycle, somebody proposes them. The political class yawns. Polls show...