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by | Feb 4, 2020

After all the great emotion of the impeachment struggle, it’s worth setting out clearly the main issues at stake in…

by | Jan 31, 2020

If we’re more divided now than we were at any time since the Civil War, ask yourself where we’d be…

by | Jan 30, 2020

The classics are called classic because of their enduring value. A case in point: Plato’s several dialogues in which he…

by | Jan 16, 2020

With Nancy Pelosi finally sending the impeachment articles to the Senate and Mitch McConnell’s plan to open the Senate trial…

by | Jan 9, 2020

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly portrayed President Trump as an existential threat to the republic. As she put it…

by | Jan 8, 2020

Dissenting in the case of Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Co. (2009), the late Justice Antonin Scalia (1936–2016) wrote,…

by | Dec 18, 2019

There will be many lies told today. For posterity, here is the letter from the president to Nancy Pelosi. Read…

by | Nov 18, 2019

In November 14’s Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan properly calls to mind the American ideal of competent public servants whose…

by | Nov 6, 2019

In Federalist 78, Publius (Alexander Hamilton) distinguished the three branches of government in part by a characteristic inherent to each….

by | Oct 12, 2019

The fictional setting for National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978) is mythical Faber College, in 1962. A largely traditional small college…

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