Essays
Judgment / September 1, 2026
Most people misunderstand what representative government is for. They think it is a practical workaround. Since millions of citizens cannot gather in a...
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Ask most people what the Establishment Clause means and you will get the same phrase: "separation of church and state." It rolls off the tongue like it is...
You hear the phrase everywhere now: democratic backsliding. It gets attached to populist election wins, voter ID laws, originalist judges, and any serious...
There is a seductive shortcut in American foreign policy that refuses to die. Democratic peace theory holds that democracies do not fight one another. From...
Most people think the federal budget process is a fight over numbers. It is not. It is a machine designed to make bigger government the only normal outcome...
The most consequential sentence in the Constitution may be one you have never heard debated. It is not the Commerce Clause, not the Necessary and Proper...
I want to make a case for limited government that most people never hear. The usual argument goes like this: government is dangerous, power corrupts, and...
Every schoolchild learns about the Magna Carta the way they learn about the Ten Commandments. There are a few famous rules everyone can recite, and a whole...
Most Americans learn Marbury v. Madison as the case that gave the Supreme Court the power to strike down laws. It gets taught as the birth of judicial...
When Americans hear "Swiss democracy," the image that comes to mind is usually a country where citizens vote on everything from immigration caps to cow-horn...