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.
President Joe Biden gifted a lump of coal to the families of the victims of the 37 convicted killers whom he pardoned this week. And, on his way out the door, he’s using his power over law enforcement to drop coal lumps also on American industry and the economy — by making energy companies vulnerable to concocted legal theories about their supposed concealment of climate change.
Biden’s recent pardons underscore the presidency’s nearly absolute control over federal law enforcement. As the sole officer charged by the Constitution to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,” the president not only sets ...
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Liberal Democracy Reexamined: Leo Strauss on Alexis de Tocqueville
This article explores Leo Strauss’s thoughts on Alexis de Tocqueville in his 1954 “Natural Right” course transcript.
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Long Distance Migration as a Two-Step Sorting Process: The Resettlement of Californians in Texas
Here we press the question of whether the well-documented stream of migrants relocating from California to Texas has been sufficient to alter the political complexion of the destination state.
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Who's That Knocking? A Study of the Strategic Choices Facing Large-Scale Grassroots Canvassing Efforts
Although there is a consensus that personalized forms of campaign outreach are more likely to be effective at either mobilizing or even persuading voters, there remains uncertainty about how campaigns should implement get-out-the-vote (GOTV) programs, especially at a truly expansive scale.
Can social democracy save capitalism — again?
Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration this week as New York City mayor is a moment of reckoning for those who care about preserving the American way of life.
Why are Zoomers embracing extremist ideas?
Conservatives have rightly denounced the extremist tendency among young progressives, but there’s a similar problem now evident on the Right.
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Australia: A Nation Adrift
The battle of ideas must be urgently engaged if the descent of a great country into tribalism, economic stagnation, cultural self-loathing, and perpetual grievance-mongering is to be averted.
Hayek, Orwell, and “The End of Truth”
“The tragedy of collectivist thought,” Hayek noted, “is that, while it starts out to make reason supreme, it ends by destroying reason because it misconceives the process on which the growth of reason depends.”
