
E. Donald Elliott
“Prediction is difficult, especially about the future.” That line is often misattributed to professional baseball player Yogi Berra, but it…
One of the ways that I try to raise the consciousness of my fellow humans is by telling them things…
The passing of Queen Elizabeth II reminds us that “some achieve greatness,” as playwright William Shakespeare once wrote. Former President…
Often when politicians take actions to undermine democracy, they loudly proclaim that their actions are necessary to “save democracy.” It…
In the first article in this series, I argued that there really is a difference between the Right and the…
The Right doesn’t usually believe in unilateral disarmament — except when it comes to politics. The false idea, common among…
Two Harvard Law School professors, Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule, recently published a book with the intriguing title Law and…
In the hubbub over the Dobbs case overruling Roe v. Wade, many have overlooked the Supreme Court’s decision in West…
This is part two in a series on what’s not in the Constitution but should be. Part one can be…
The depression-era Louisiana demagogue, Huey P. Long, famously declared: “Every man a king!” I grant that his use of the…