Dear American Spectator Readers (or as it says on a coffee mug that I received for attending one of TAS’s annual dinners, other “proud members of the vast right-wing conspiracy”): I apologize for having been AWOL for a while, but I…
As an old political science professor speaking to law-school oriented Federalist Society students, I had long offered a course labeled “The Real Constitution” to distinguish mine from the one taught in law schools. Recently, the title attracted two Federalist chapter…
Millions of voters remain on the fence about Donald J. Trump v. Kamala Harris. Everybody knows President Trump. Frankly, many dislike his personality, particularly his frequent name calling. But most honest people also acknowledge that they were better off during…
Law matters. We may have relegated its study to experts, but when law goes wrong or when law disappears, everyone knows it. Two classical texts establish the importance of law as something important to ordinary people, not just lawyers and…
The 7.5 earthquake and resulting tsunami that shook Japan on New Year’s Day set the stage as the faultless metaphor that will reverberate throughout 2024 and beyond. With the impending presidential election aside, the tremors of improbability arrived a month…
Suppose that you owned a manufacturing business for which the government prescribed certain production regulations, and suppose, further, that the government demanded you provide office space for a federal observer to monitor your operation. Finally, suppose that the government now…
A liberal judge in Colorado shocked progressives Friday by ordering that Donald Trump be included on presidential primary ballots in the state. District Judge Sarah B. Wallace, who opined that Trump did “engage in insurrection” on Jan. 6, 2021, was…
Trying multiple criminal cases against the leading Republican candidate for president during the run-up to an election threatens to tear apart an already divided country. Reports of threats of violence have already begun circulating, and I have argued in these…
“Through me you pass into the city of woe…abandon all hope, you who enter here!” Inferno by Dante Alighieri (1265 – 1321) “We gotta get out of this place, if it’s the last thing we ever do!” The Animals (1965)…
