Of Walls
Walls can work when citizens are united to defend them from their side and united to defend them by whatever violent intervention is required on the other side.
End the FAD!
U.S. regulatory agencies dominate global standards but are inefficient. A shift to regulation through a surety bond system with insurers could better promote safety, innovation, and economic growth.
Politics and Merit in the Academy
If professor positions were political appointments, chosen by state governors, those appointments would reflect to some degree the politics of the governors and of voters who chose them.
How Not to Lose Your Tenured Job
Check your privilege, kid—as long as you obey these commandments, it will hold up until, and beyond, your retirement.
Another Forever War?
Americans should be concerned that the Russia-Ukraine conflict could drag on for decades and carefully weigh our interests.
Trump, DeSantis, and Kayfabe
You are meant to enjoy and respond to the staged rivalry between Donald Trump and Florida’s Ron DeSantis.
What Americans Lost When We Abandoned the Secret Ballot
Now that unbribed, unintimidated voting no longer serves the purposes of one American political party, the secret ballot seems as dead as the whistle-stop campaign.
The Executioner’s Face Is Always Well-Hidden
Just as the nuclear age stimulated open and public discussion of nuclear deterrence and nuclear defense, we need open and public discussion of biological deterrence and biological defense.
Stay Out of Kenosha
Young patriot, don’t go to Kenosha, or Seattle, or Portland. Blue state governors, blue county prosecutors, and blue city mayors don’t want your “help” against the mobs they have made possible.
The War on Coronavirus Is Too Important to Be Left to the Scientists
A whole variety of approaches to making a vaccine against the Wuhan virus are being tried. Some will work in the lab, some won’t. But the policy choices involved are beyond the realm of the scientific method.
Showdown at Fort Miamis
Before America could be great, it first had to secure its territory, fend off enemies foreign and domestic, and maintain an unsteady peace with the most powerful empire on Earth. Here is the forgotten story of how George Washington and his administration navigated perilous diplomatic waters in the nation’s earliest days.
How to Lose to Bernie
If we want to prevent the destruction of prosperity and American power that a Sanders Administration would leave in its wake, we need to learn from the experience of others about which kinds of arguments will keep him out—and which kinds of arguments will do little but smooth his path.
Lincoln Enough
Time, and history, will tell if Donald Trump is “better” or “greater” than Abraham Lincoln. But if he is re-empowered in 2020 to actually make great Republican principles work, Trump would be the Lincoln we deserve.
L’etat C’est Nous
A deeper knowledge of the players involved in leveling the charges of impropriety and, even, “treason” against President Trump, shows that most of them have something to hide and interests to protect that explain their outrage.
Shallow Politics and Deep Politics
In January, three new telegenic, outspoken, and self-proclaimed “progressive” congresswomen took their seats: Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). Omar, a […]
The One-Two Punch to Knock Out Electoral Democracy
If you thought, or hoped, that the brave (or nobly self-interested) Democratic Governor of Nevada, Steve Sisolak had done in the push for a National […]
The Hour of Avigdor
The connections between America and Israel are deep: grounded on religious cultural, and political ties that go well back before Israel’s founding. What’s more, Prime […]
Out of Syria
Wednesday afternoon Israel time I was outlining with my collaborator Yoav Kapshuk our paper on the meaning of the Syrian civil war and its resolution […]
Starbucks Socialism
For decades, my parents have frequented one “Bamboo Gardens,” a vegetarian Chinese restaurant in possession of that rare treasure in the neighborhood of Seattle Center: […]
Packing and Unpacking the Court
In response to President Trump being called upon, once again, to exercise his constitutional power to fill a seat on the Supreme Court, Democrats broke […]