Essays
Judgment / August 8, 2026
Every few election cycles a new piece of political machinery rumbles out of the think tanks, polished with phrases like "fairness," "proportionality," and...
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Every few years a new outrage lands on the front pages: Washington overrides a state's education standards, commandeers local law enforcement, or hands down...
Every four years the same ritual unfolds. The political class pulls out a map, fills forty-three states with a deep shade of red or blue, and declares that...
The single most effective political influence campaign in American history was paid for with undisclosed cash, written under a false name, and aimed at...
Every election cycle, the same tired arguments about voter suppression resurface, and they almost always miss the point. One side insists that requiring a...
There is an idea that refuses to die. It goes dormant for a generation, then pops up again in the writings of a frustrated academic or the manifesto of a...
If you want people to be free, you need them to be good. That sentence makes a certain kind of libertarian squirm and a certain kind of progressive smirk...
There is a quiet confession built right into the Democratic Party's presidential nomination process, one the party's loudest voices hope you never notice...
The standard history lesson presents the Anti-Federalists as principled sore losers. They grumbled about centralized power, lost the ratification fight, and...
Nobody needs another lecture on the Second Amendment that trots out the same talking points. Most of those arguments are good, but they've been made so...