Rules, rules, rules — and don’t we hate ’em? They restrict some of our most personal notions, retard our experiential growth, run contrary to modern suppositions as to our human rights. Modern culture reflects and magnifies the I’ll-do-what-I-want spirit that…

In The Federalist, Alexander Hamilton devotes many consecutive articles to addressing the faults of the Articles of Confederation. Occasionally writing together with Madison, he makes the case that the new Constitution would remedy those defects. That the government established by…

March was an important month for George Washington. He resisted the opportunity to become a military dictator in March. And he rode away from America’s presidency in March. A man of action rather than ideas, the Virginia planter turned continental…

American liberals once worshipped at the feet of Lady Justice. During the 1960s, the heyday of the progressive Warren Court, jurists became the tip of the left-wing spear. If the public refused to accept the latest progressive nostrum, no worries….

A political Halley’s Comet flew over the Capitol this week. Even politics junkies averted their gaze. The Senate impeachment trial of a sitting president, just the third such event in the history of the republic, strangely acted as soporific rather…

The fictional setting for National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978) is mythical Faber College, in 1962. A largely traditional small college set in suburbia, near a small town, staid Faber is turned upside down by the raucous, party-crazy students at Delta…

Alexander Hamilton is most famous for a fight. A fight that lasted mere seconds, a two-bullet battle with a casualty count of one — Hamilton himself. And though Hamilton’s notorious duel with Aaron Burr may have been the most notorious…