Well, that didn’t take long. The first major bill passed by the new Democratic congressional majority and signed into law by our new president on March 11 had already provoked a constitutional challenge by March 17. The attorney general of…

Principles critical to the foundational freedom of this nation and its citizens must be preserved and vigorously defended regardless of who takes the presidential oath every four years. With our “three-layer cake” of government responsibilities at the federal, state, and…

Sacramento The beauty of federalism is it allows individual states to try various public-policy experiments and then allows people in other states to sit back, observe the results, and decide whether or not they want to embrace similar policies. Based…

So. A Texas day care center can open now. I said “right now.” Come Friday, May 22, Texas bars and bowling alleys, by gubernatorial writ, are allowed to pry their doors partly — and, yes, cautiously — open. On the…

“America” is a continent – actually two of them – but it is also a set of ideas, or, better said, a philosophy for how a community can govern itself to maximize freedom and creativity. Every generation seems to need…

F. H. Buckley’s newest work, American Secession: The Looming Threat of National Breakup, is probably one of the most important nonfiction books of 2020. Written during the last year when Americans were more divided at any time in their national…

First, a word about how law and our legal system is supposed to work. We begin with two Latin words: stare decisis. The idea is that people need to know the rules. For example, before every baseball game begins, the umpires…