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Big Worries about the Gaza Cease-fire
Hamas broke a cease-fire on October 7, 2023, as they have done on many occasions. They will break this cease-fire the first time the moment is opportune.
The EU Imposes Its ESG Agenda on American Companies
The goal in negotiating with the EU should be to secure the freer flow of goods, services, and investment, something in the interests of both America and the EU.
Crime and the Political Question
The electorate is no longer buying what soft-on-crime politicians are selling.
Trump's Immigration Agenda and the Constitution
The Trump administration may be able to resort to new, untried legal tactics to overcome resistance.
The Path Dependency of American Health Care
Health care policies promote the chance to acquire winning lottery tickets, offering greater health care services and product availability (subsidized by third parties) rather than better assurances of those resources being delivered and used more productively.
Brains Versus Brawn: Ordinal Rank Effects in Job Training
Is it better to be a big fish in a small pond or a small fish in a big pond?
The Case Against Birthright Citizenship
No one at the time or now has advanced a coherent explanation as to why birthright citizenship is desirable as a matter of principle.
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The Arrival of Legal Traditionalism
With a clearer view of what justifies its traditionalist intuitions, the Court has an opportunity to right many residual wrongs from its past misadventures.
How One Simple Reform Can Improve Voting and Reduce Political Extremism
We should consider an alternative voting method that would constitute a much better reform, one that would allow voters to express their preferences more accurately.
These Mayors Understand How to Run a City
Armed with common sense policies, three urban leaders are fighting a patient battle against chaos.
Birthright Citizenship Is American Citizenship
The Fourteenth Amendment recognized the traditional American norm of birthright citizenship.
A Window to a Real Congress
For a brief time, Congress will be in an uncommon position—in the driver’s seat.
Trump Must Pick Judges Who Have Publicly Demonstrated Their Courage
The two most conservative members of the Court, Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, routinely complain that their new colleagues lack fortitude.
Causes Tending to Undermine a Democratic Republic
Commentary on de Tocqueville: Vol. One, Part Two, Chapter Nine
What Kind of Democracy in America?
If elections are mandates for democratic change, then what role should the Constitution play?
Rebuking the False Dichotomy of Progress vs. Reaction
The Progressive “mandate of heaven” is given to them by their more acute understanding of the future and what it demands of us – and, in turn, they of us.
Can Tulsi Gabbard Lead a Broken Intelligence Community?
Members of Congress have doubts about Gabbard's ability to lead America’s faltering intelligence community in the battle against a rising ISIS, China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
Should We Believe the Economic Data or Americans’ “Lyin’” Eyes? The Answer Is Yes.
Many Americans are convinced that the economy is ailing and that life is financially tougher today than a decade—or a generation—ago.
Centralized Regulation Will Not Produce a Decarbonized Future
The Biden Administration instructed agencies to scour the pages of the U.S. Code to find provisions in extant statutes that they could deploy to curtail fossil fuel energy use.
Fake Convictions and Fake Pardons
Are preemptive pardons permissible to cover cases for offenses that may have not been committed and for which no charges may ever be brought?
Regenerating Society in an Age of Disintegration
Place-based institutions are like heartwood—the strong, durable center of a tree trunk that solidifies over time.
Every State Needs a DOGE
If business leaders really want to supercharge U.S. productivity, they should ask themselves what they can do to shake their home states from bureaucratic sclerosis and reinvigorate broad-based economic growth.
Trump and the Panama Canal: Why He Should Invoke the Monroe Doctrine
Trump’s statements convey powerful signals about his overall strategic intentions in this hemisphere and globally.
Dynamism and Stagnation: An Outlook
Flexibility and responsiveness are particularly important during periods of shock.
Understanding the Mission of Civic Thought
The new schools of civic thought confront an academy oscillating between dogmatism and relativism.
Degraded Deliberation in the U.S. House
Congressional Republicans are setting themselves up for explosive failures on the floor.
Burying Settler Colonialism's Ideologiekritik
The Settler Colonialist ideological critique destroys minds, bodies, and societies.
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Why Europe and America Need Each Other
European elites have let their snobbery towards Trump blind them to their own interests.
Saving Free Markets in America
American markets are under siege by interventionists on both the left and the right.
Deconstructing the Administrative State: Will This Time be Different?
Our political system is designed so that durable and significant policy change is only achievable through congressional action.
Biden's Shakespearean End: Something Wicked This Way Comes
Biden’s use of his clemency power is best viewed in the context of one of Shakespeare’s tragedies.
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Chemerinsky's Constitutional Wishlist
Instead of indulging in progressive fever dreams, we should spend more time on real education, legal or otherwise.
Getting Family Policy Wrong
Family support spending should not be the main tool for achieving or measuring family policy success.
Originalism Must Restore Self Government
The judicial role must be recalibrated if originalism is to allow adequate space for citizens to govern themselves via representation in the legislature.
Alienation and Apple
Christine Rosen's book needs to be supplemented by a more extensive analysis of what technology is doing for us.
The Presidential Solution to Taming the Growing Federal Debt
Only presidential power can tame America's massive federal debt.
Fixing Inflation, Right-Sizing the Federal Government
Measuring inflation right is the first step in understanding how much the federal government is spending and how the economy is performing.
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The New Supply Side Economics Can Revive Economic Growth
The regulatory low-hanging fruit in the U.S. today concerns deregulating work and housing markets.
The Future of Entrepreneurship in America
Free market entrepreneurship has been the engine of social mobility for generations of young people, families, and immigrants, but today, this path is at a crossroads.
Building the American Revival
We shouldn't interpret the recent election merely as a mandate to uproot and tear down a broken regime.
Ending Campus Antisemitism
Shut off the federal spigot, and we might see universities suddenly become bastions of religious tolerance.
The Future of Conservatism in America
Conservatives are beginning to understand that the brute exercise of political power may be necessary to force some of our cultural institutions to change.
The Court's Obscenity Jurisprudence Is Due for Revision
Will the Supreme Court revisit its expansive protections for pornography?
Trump’s Department of Labor Needs a Pro Growth Leader
Pro-labor isn't Pro-worker and officials in the incoming Trump administration should know the difference.
What is an Establishment of Religion? And What Does Disestablishment Require?
Vincent Phillip Muñoz reviews a new book about the Establishment Clause.
Globalization’s Challenge to American Constitutionalism
Globalization will pose profound problems for America's constitutional foundations.
Is Woke Losing?
The battle with Woke will and must continue until champions of authentic freedom have defeated the 'culture of repudiation.'
What is the Future of the Federalist Society?
The Federalist Society's playbook must change if it is to continue leading the conservative legal movement.
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Re-forming the Department of Justice
The Trump administration should prioritize course correction at the Department of Justice.
The American University Is Rotting from Within
The modern academy is a threat to reason, liberty and Western civilization.
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Corporate Welfare Dissolves Trust in Government and Markets
Corporate welfare strikes at the heart of equality under the law, compelling citizens to lose trust in government and market institutions.
The DOGE Daze of Regulatory Reform
Executive branch edicts alone cannot solve the problem of executive branch overreach.
National Poll from Civitas Institute: Trump Victory Driven by Voters Who Reject Status Quo
The poll asked 1,200 Americans an array of questions about how things are going in America.
Israel Among the Nations
The Western political and cultural intelligentsia's criticism of Israel is rooted in an illusion.
How to Curb the Administrative State?
Despite the well-earned demise of Chevron deference, aggressive government action to expand the administrative state is moving forward on multiple fronts.
Winston Churchill and the US-UK Special Relationship: Then and Now
The obituary of the Special Relationship between the US and UK has been written many times, but world events constantly reconfirm its importance.
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Recent Patterns of New Business Creation
The pandemic surge of new business entries highlights American entrepreneurial dynamism.
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The Housing and Migration Crisis
Challenges to housing affordability have undermined economic mobility and dynamism.
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Reflections on Mass Flourishing: 10 Years Later
Nobel laureate Edmund Phelps reflects on his book, Mass Flourishing, ten years after publication.
The World War II Lesson for DOGE
A Trump revolution is poised to unleash the innovative and productive power of the private sector.
Binder's "Shock Values" Named WSJ Top 10 Book of 2024
From WSJ's review: "Rises in price levels bedevil politicians but are frequently driven by political decisions."
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Sludge, Stagnation, and Dynamism
Cass Sunstein explores the pervasive problem of "sludge"—bureaucratic obstacles that hinder innovation.
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Congressional Testimony: Rowena He on the Chinese Communist Party’s Historical Revisionism
Rowena He testifies before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China.
The Apprentice Is Back, and This Time He Means Business
Donald Trump has an opportunity to rewrite the story of his first term.
The Return of Realpolitik
In a world dominated by bullies, sharp elbows and unpredictability may be what the times demand.
DEI Is Dead. The Establishment Media Just Doesn’t Want You to Know It
The US election will accelerate the decline of a diversity ideology that was making race relations worse.
Tocqueville’s Defense of Aristocratic Literature
Despite making clear in Democracy in America that the instruction of democracy is “the first duty imposed on those who direct society in our day,” Tocqueville says very little in his work about education in the ordinary sense of the word.
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Will Republicans Save the Humanities?
Colleges in red and purple states have been going on a hiring spree.
‘America First’ Can’t Be ‘America Alone'
Trump's 'new golden age' will require the U.S. to build bridges, even as they seek to raise tolls.
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We Need a Full Accounting of Biden’s Presidential Incapacity
There must be severe consequences for the concerted effort to suppress the public’s knowledge of Biden’s cognitive deficits.
Natural Law vs. Positivism, Chapter 8
In which John Yoo goes full Holmes, ignoring the sound advice "Never go full Holmes..."
Biden’s Lawfare by Other Means
Hawaii aims to punish out-of-state companies for national — indeed international — temperature changes. Biden’s Justice Department is aiding it.
The Fani Willis Trump Fiasco Is Far from Over. In Fact, It’s Just Getting Started
Democrats should do the right thing: drop their legally flawed cases against President Trump.
Elon Musk and the Rise of the Alt-Oligarchy
The power wielded by Donald Trump’s renegade band of billionaires should concern any democrat.
A Big TikTok Consideration Trump Needs to Prioritize on Day One
President Trump faces a host of legal issues related to the 2024 Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act
Europe Faces Green Energy Immiseration. Trump Is About to Offer It a Lifeline
Green ideology is deindustrialising the UK and the Continent. America is embracing a more abundant future.
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The LA Fires Are the Horrifying Consequence of Democratic Misrule
Blue states’ embrace of progressive fads over good governance was bound to end in disaster.
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Joe Biden’s Unpardonable Pardons
The end of the Biden administration’s lawfare campaign might be marked by a vast expansion — and distortion — of the pardon power.
Don't Fall For Merchan's Trap
By delaying Donald Trump's sentencing until ten days before the inauguration, Judge Juan Merchan is openly displaying the political nature of the prosecution and trial
Why International Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Putin Are Anti-democracy Legal Garbage
Trump can demonstrate his commitment to our national sovereignty by attacking an institution that poses a direct threat to it: the International Criminal Court.
Civic Thought: A Proposal for University-Level Civic Education
An intellectual mission in the fullest sense requires a coherent program of teaching and research in a specific and demanding discipline. This report sketches the outlines of such a program, which we call “Civic Thought.”
Prosecute the Architects of Trump Lawfare for Election Interference
Rather than revenge, the Justice Department should defend the constitutional rights of candidate Trump and his voters.
Trump Probes Can De-weaponize the Justice System — Starting with Alvin Bragg’s Daniel Penny Case
Trump can use executive orders to strike a blow for the rule of law.
How Trump, AG Bondi Can Persuade Democrats to Abandon Lawfare
Politicians should put an end to lawfare and the weaponization of government.
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