Our Pandemic Response: Fear Trumps Liberty
The next emergency—and it will come—will provide justification for stripping American citizens of even more of their rights and liberties.
The End of Free Speech and the Coming Dystopia
Since the election, we are beginning to understand the possibility that those of us who hold certain views may be denied certain benefits of citizenship.
The Least Dangerous Branch?
As the recent controversies over Supreme Court justices illustrate, that body — indeed the judiciary as a whole — has become far more important than the Founders intended.
Trump and Civil-Military Relations
It seems clear that both parties to the civil-military bargain need to reexamine their mutual relationship because it is mutual trust ultimately that lies at the heart of healthy civil-military relations.
Battery Wagner: An African-American ‘Glory’ in the Fight for Freedom
Without the participation of African Americans, the war to save the Union “as it was” could not have been transformed into a war to save the Union “forever worthy of the saving”—without slavery.
Bad U.S. Policies, Not Racism, Is What’s Hurting Black Families
Americans of good will strive to rise above our prejudices.
Progressive Racism and the Tulsa Massacre of 1921
Before they became issues associated with the upcoming Trump rally, it is doubtful that most Americans had ever heard of either “Juneteenth” or the Tulsa massacre.
Quelling Insurrection
If weak and feckless mayors and governors fail to take steps to suppress this insurrection, the federal government is obliged to act.
Reflections on Memorial Day 2020
This day permits us to enlarge the individual soldier’s view, to give meaning to the sacrifice that was accepted of some but offered by all, not only to acknowledge and remember the sacrifice, but to validate it.
Pandemic Is Shining a Light on the American Character
Those who have revealed their inner tyrant include New York mayor Bill DeBlasio, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Bureaucracy and “Pink Flamingo” Events
The danger is that the United States will do what it always does when it suffers a strategic surprise: create another level of burdensome bureaucracy.
Me-Too Republicans for Biden, the Boneless Wonder
Apparently the Sanders revolution within the Democratic Party has petered out, at least for the time being. Sanders has not withdrawn but the most recent […]
Fellow Citizens No Longer?
If we believe that our opponents are not just wrong, but evil, violence against them becomes an acceptable response.
Prudence and Presidential Pardons
While it may sound strange to some, the idea of restraint in war helps to civilize a brutal human activity and to limit the descent of soldiers into barbarism. But war also gives rise to ambiguous situations.
The Foundations of the ‘Administrative/Deep State’
Reversing the administrative state will take a major effort. Recognizing that it exists and that it is not merely unconstitutional but in fact anti-constitutional is at least a beginning.
Praetorianism and
the ‘Deep State’
Article II gives the president sweeping powers to conduct foreign affairs and negotiate with leaders of other nations. It does not grant any such power to unelected bureaucrats to act in ways that demonstrate they approve or disapprove of foreign policy—even when they are "deeply troubled" by it.
The Perils of Praetorianism
Do we really want to normalize the view that the military is the protector of republican government?
Slandering the American Founding
Well, it’s settled. Everything we thought we knew about the American Founding is wrong. The real Founding is not the Declaration of Independence in 1776 […]
The Democrats’ Looming Self-Destruction
I was raised a Democrat. My parents, like most people of their generation (Depression and World War II), were Roosevelt Democrats. I, like most of […]
China vs. A Liberal World Order
For six decades after the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, Great Britain was able to underwrite a liberal world order based on freedom of navigation […]