Essays
Judgment / September 17, 2026
The fight that started the American Revolution was not a fight over what Parliament looked like. It was a fight over whether men who never had to answer to...
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I want to start with a heresy. Most of what passes for democratic representation today is really an argument against the Constitution. The modern assumption...
In a free republic, the right to organize politically is not a gift from the state. It belongs to the people. Yet across much of the democratic world, a...
Every few years, Washington treats the pardon power as though it were a king's prerogative that somehow survived the Revolution by accident. A president...
Almost every debate about the independent judiciary gets the central point backwards. Politicians, pundits, and law professors talk about judicial...
Ask ten people what devolution means, and you will get ten half-formed answers. Some hear a polite word for states' rights. Others think it is a British...
Political scientists have a name for something the Founders built without realizing it: Duverger's law. Usually, it is cited as an indictment of the...
I have a quarrel with the way we talk about Article V. Call it an Article V convention, an amendments convention, or a convention of states, but stop...
Let me start with a confession: I flinch every time a politician says "for the public good." Not because I object to the public good. I take it seriously...
I have a problem with the phrase "illiberal democracy." Not with the reality it tries to name, but with the name itself. It takes a threat to liberty and...