Alarmism can have many parents. Sometimes, it is conceived by perceptive insight wed to a legitimate concern. Other times, it is a child bred by the marriage of ignorance and bias. Recently, the media has sounded an alarm that a…
SACRAMENTO — I’ve been spending time engaging with urbanists on X (formerly Twitter) so that you, dear American Spectator readers, can avoid doing so. By the way, it’s not something I’d recommend unless you have a large stash of blood-pressure medication. Obviously,…
Millions of conservative Americans voted for Donald Trump in 2016 because he recognized that appointing Supreme Court justices was among the most important things a president does. And we were not disappointed. The hysterical reaction of the Left is proof…
Rudimentary U.S. civics courses teach that the federal government has three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial. Each possesses a distinct power set. In Article III, the Constitution vests in the courts the bulk of judiciary authority. These fundamental facts of America’s…
Populist conservatives have made their peace with big government and seem to spend their time these days fighting symbolic culture-war battles over such silliness as drag shows. Many of their “solutions” involve owning the libs by harnessing state power on…
Much has been written about the intellectual failings of America’s institutions of higher learning, including their ignorance — or outright suppression — of the achievements of Western civilization, to which the modern university owes its existence. Far less, however, has…
Proposed rules issued by the Biden administration’s Department of Education seek to expand the federal definition of sex discrimination to include discrimination on the basis of “gender” and “gender identity.” But there’s a problem: the Department of Education lacks the…
Two Harvard Law School professors, Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule, recently published a book with the intriguing title Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State. Far from “redeeming” anything, their book actually recounts why administrative law in general and the…
In the hubbub over the Dobbs case overruling Roe v. Wade, many have overlooked the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v. EPA. The case was part of a larger project by legal theorists on the right to cut back…
