Essays
Judgment / July 29, 2026
The last time the American people amended the Constitution to address a major structural question, it was 1971. The 26th Amendment lowered the voting age to...
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We have been taught to see mob rule as a simple numbers game. Fifty-one percent of the people vote to crush the rights of the other forty-nine. It is a real...
The term "liberal democracy" gets tossed around in speeches, op-eds, and cable news panels as though it were the most self-evident description of our...
There is something seductive about the promise of direct democracy in the digital age. The pitch sounds simple and noble: put every tax, every regulation...
Every election cycle, the same wearying chorus rises from the commentariat, the pollsters, and the politicians who croon for the middle: We need more...
Every year the same slow-motion disaster unfolds. A shutdown deadline appears on the horizon, Congress kicks the can with a continuing resolution, and then...
We all understand something elemental about judgment: the person closest to a problem usually has the best information, the clearest incentives, and the...
We argue endlessly about what citizenship demands. Birthright or blood? Documents or duties? Those are serious questions, but they obscure something far...
There is a quiet, unfashionable truth buried deep in the history of American suffrage that almost no one wants to discuss anymore. The Founders never...
Every few years a pardon grabs the headlines and the pundit class dusts off the same tired script. Did the president go too far? Can he pardon himself? Is...