Essays
Judgment / June 29, 2026
It sounds reasonable at first. Democratic socialism-the phrase itself seems to promise the best of both worlds: the compassion of socialism tempered by the...
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Every four years, the same ritual unfolds. A candidate wins the presidency without the popular vote. The losing side wails. The media runs its predictable...
Every American schoolchild learns that Marbury v. Madison gave us judicial review, and every law student memorizes the line from Chief Justice John...
Everyone who follows American politics can feel it. It has a name now: affective polarization. It is the visceral, tribal disgust that has replaced ordinary...
There is a false premise quietly poisoning the current debate over the filibuster. It is the assumption that the Senate rule requiring 60 votes to advance...
Every American civics class tells the same tidy story about Marbury v. Madison. Chief Justice John Marshall, facing a hostile President Jefferson and a...
There is a word making the rounds among progressive intellectuals, Silicon Valley utopians, and the chattering class that ought to send a chill down the...
There is a word that sounds almost unassailable in American politics: cooperative. Who could possibly be against cooperation? When applied to federalism-the...
There is a principle at stake every time a president of either party refuses to turn over documents or allow testimony from his advisers. That principle is...
Every civics textbook teaches the two basic models of representation. The delegate does exactly what his constituents want, like a messenger carrying...