The urgency of civics
American civics is the great neglected subject of the 21st century. Unfortunately, its decline and semi-demise occurred almost exactly at the same time as the internet and social media rose […]
An American life in public service
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham from South Carolina died Saturday night at the age of 71. Had his untimely death not occurred, one imagines his passion for service (and for politics) […]
Court packing should be DOA
The California Congressman Ro Khanna is only the latest high-profile Democrat to insist that the time has come to pack the Supreme Court by adding new justices. The plan, of course, is […]
Socialism runs the table in New York
Who saw anti-Israel socialism arriving as the breakout political movement of 2026? When Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral race in 2025, he prevailed over Andrew Cuomo, the […]
Doing it the right way
President Donald Trump took the unusual step of attending part of the oral argument regarding his executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship in the United States. Since the passage […]
How Politics Hijacked Nonprofits
Nonprofits have a long and storied history in the United States. When Alexis de Tocqueville visited this country in the 19th century, he intended to study its prisons. Instead, he wrote one […]
Attack, attack, attack
I can recall a textbook narrative from law school lauding a retired professor who returned to successfully teach a 50-minute class to the next generation of students. Donald Trump is […]
The house always wins
Twenty years ago, I flew up to New York to visit a friend who had tickets to a matchup between the Giants and the former Washington Redskins. We had a […]
The crime against everybody
Democratic systems are terribly vulnerable to fraud. Interest groups can seek concentrated benefits from the political class while the broader public is rationally uninterested. They are uninterested because any particular […]
The filibuster is failing us
There is a tremendous amount of romance associated with the filibuster. Many fans of old movies recall scenes such as those in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington where Jimmy Stewart’s character (an […]