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by | Oct 9, 2023

“The more you study modern American government,” Speaker Newt Gingrich writes in “American Despotism,” the first installment of his new American Spectator series, “the more you realize that totalitarian efforts are all around us — and they have been winning…

by | Oct 7, 2023

“America is now in the deepest, most dangerous constitutional crisis since the hostility in the 1850s that led to secession and civil war,” Speaker Newt Gingrich writes in “American Despotism,” the first installment of his new American Spectator series. “The…

by | Sep 18, 2023

At the Supreme Court, the legal doctrines of textualism and originalism have featured prominently in several recent majority opinions. Many opinions have structurally weakened the capital-p Progressive administrative state. These legal doctrines say, respectively, that judges ought to rule consistently…

by | Sep 13, 2023

Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series by Speaker Gingrich on American despotism. Watch Speaker Gingrich discuss his series here. Read the first in the series here. The current crisis did not appear suddenly and without warning. The…

by | Sep 6, 2023

Author’s Note: The complex patterns that have led to the greatest crisis of constitutional government and rule of law since the Civil War are far bigger, involve far more people, and are ultimately more dangerous to American freedom than the…

by | Aug 25, 2023

The Republican primary debate charade, hosted by a hapless Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, revealed two things: Vivek Ramaswamy is a rising star, and Donald Trump dominated as the elephant not in the room. The Democrats and the media run…

by | Jul 3, 2023

The fulminations against the Supreme Court’s recent rulings confirm what I have long suspected: The Left, or at least much of it, just doesn’t believe in the concept of law; for leftists, everything is about doing “the right thing” as…

by | Sep 12, 2022

The combination of class action lawsuits and contingency fee payment arrangements has reached its apotheosis in today’s mass tort system. Not only is this flawed system harming American business to the tune of well over $300 billion annually, but it…

by | Jul 21, 2022

Longtime American Spectator contributor Neal B. Freeman was honored by the Boy Scouts of America on Tuesday for “advancing American values.” In accepting the award at the annual dinner in Nassau County, Florida, Freeman made these remarks. I am delighted…

by | Feb 20, 2022

In its just-released annual report on China’s WTO compliance, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said that China has failed to follow “market-oriented principles” and instead pursued a “state-led, non-market approach to the economy and trade.” Based on a…

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