In The Federalist, Alexander Hamilton devotes many consecutive articles to addressing the faults of the Articles of Confederation. Occasionally writing…

Washington In February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention held a conference call on COVID-19 and warned, as the…

While watching Donald Trump’s coronavirus press briefing last Saturday, my 92-year-old stepfather, Juan, made a curious observation. “The 21st century…

Both Plato and Aristotle feared mass democracy because its smooth-talking agitators could easily whip up popular passions and lead an…

Doubtless most people are familiar with Mike Lindell of MyPillow fame. (And yes, full disclosure, I am happily possessed of…

Charles Mackay wrote not of pandemics but “moral epidemics” 179 years ago in Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of…

New York City has replaced northern Italy as the crucial crisis point of the international coronavirus pandemic, and that’s actually…

P, my Paris correspondent, asks me how we are holding up, I tell him we as a society will be…

Sacramento With coronavirus turning our lives into a zombie apocalypse, most Americans have been fairly nonchalant as government officials grab…

An overwhelming majority of Americans are worried about the financial effects of state and local measures imposed to slow the…