Essays
Judgment / August 7, 2026
Every election cycle, the same tired arguments about voter suppression resurface, and they almost always miss the point. One side insists that requiring a...
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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...
There is a sentence in the Declaration of Independence that most Americans have heard so many times they have stopped hearing it at all. We know the phrases...
Every election cycle we talk about presidential power, congressional gridlock, judicial activism, and the ballooning federal budget. We point fingers at bad...
Every election cycle the same stale sermon rolls down from the pundit class. A Libertarian candidate pulls three percent in a swing state, a Green nominee...
Most people hear the phrase civil disobedience and immediately picture a crowd of shouting activists blocking a freeway, or maybe a young person with a...