Essays
Judgment / August 25, 2026
We spend an enormous amount of time arguing about what counts as a right and which branch of government gets to define it. But the most radical word in the...
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Most Americans remember the Nullification Crisis, if they remember it at all, as a dusty tax fight before the Civil War. The real lesson is rarely...
Most people hear the phrase illiberal democracy and picture a strongman in a distant capital. He wins an election, then starts weakening courts...
The easiest way to misunderstand impeachment is to picture it as a criminal trial that happens to play out in Congress. People demand depositions...
Here is what almost everyone gets wrong about Marbury v. Madison. They remember it as the day the Supreme Court grabbed power. In reality, it was the day...
Stare decisis - Latin for "to stand by things decided" - has a pleasant, conservative ring. It sounds like humility. It sounds like restraint. But in modern...
Most defenses of judicial restraint sound like a plea for timidity. They tell you the courts should defer to the elected branches, stay in their lane, and...
I am not an anarchist. I am a constitutional conservative with strong libertarian instincts, and that is exactly why I reject anarchy. Liberty is not the...
Picture two prisoners. The first sits in federal detention without a charge, without a trial date, and without any clear legal authority keeping him there...
It is not hard to say Richard Nixon was wrong. When a president tries to hide evidence of a criminal conspiracy behind executive privilege, he has crossed a...