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Betsy Dorminey
Betsy Dorminey, Georgia state director of the Capitalist League, is a lawyer in Atlanta and an entrepreneur in Vermont. She served in the Reagan administration, has had several leadership roles in the Federalist Society, and is an informal inner circle member of the Kemp/Reagan Prosperity Caucus supply-side team. 
by | Jul 7, 2022

Just in case you were not already quaking in your fuchsia suede platform boots, the Paris fall/winter couture shows offer proof. To judge from the hemlines at notable houses like Chanel and Dior, we’re in for a rough economic ride….

by | Jun 29, 2022

America started anticipating the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization as soon as Justice Samuel Alito’s draft was leaked in early May. Public radio and media heavies sounded the tocsin for weeks in advance, but still had…

by | Jan 18, 2022

Dylan Matthews, writing in Vox, poses an excellent question: “Can randomly selected citizens govern better than elected officials?” Who knows? Maybe it’s worth a try. Whether you call it sortition or lottocracy, it’s a very old idea, dating back to…

by | Aug 15, 2021

In a recent New Yorker essay, staff writer Nicholas Lemann trembles at the thought of the end of affirmative action at the hands of a Republican-dominated Supreme Court. He assumes that non-whites (except Asians, of course) could never make it…

by | Mar 1, 2021

I am sad. Sad I am. I cannot read Green Eggs and Ham. The eggs, through green, were not free-range. And ham? Ask pigs. They think it’s strange. I thought the Cat was just a cat. Silly me, for thinking…

by | Feb 2, 2021

Every now and then insight strikes like a bolt from the blue, and suddenly everything is clear. That’s how it hit me on a recent rainy morning: Democrats have no faith in the democratic process. They seem to believe, with…

by | Jun 8, 2020

In The Art of War, Sun Tzu exhorts the reader to know the enemy. Those engaged in the latest attacks on the Federalist Society plainly don’t know theirs. Let me offer a little history lesson because, as the LCD Soundsystem…

by | May 29, 2020

Who knew film producer Michael Moore and President Donald Trump would find common ground on a major matter of public policy? True, the gentlemen have more in common than either would care to admit. Both are big white guys of…

by | Apr 30, 2020

In a review of the new documentary Planet of the Humans, the Guardian recently blared, “Climate experts call for ‘dangerous’ Michael Moore film to be taken down.” Now, that’s just the kind of “man bites dog” headline that grabs my attention,…

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