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Christopher James Wolfe is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of St. Thomas at Houston. He has previously taught at the University of Dallas, North Lake College, and Founders Classical Academy.

April 30, 2019|Abraham Lincoln, Federalist 49, James Ceaser, John Marini, John Marshall, Lyceum Address

Should James Ceaser Ditch His “FED 49” License Plate?

by Christopher James Wolfe|

The Lincoln Memorial at night (Engel Ching / Shutterstock.com)
Forget about venerating the fake Constitution taught in elite law schools, and remember to venerate the Constitution of the founders’ philosophy.

November 20, 2018|DNC, political parties, primary, Progressivism, superdelegates, Woodrow Wilson

Nixing the Superdelegate Votes Is the Completion of a Long Progressive Project

by Christopher James Wolfe|

Balloon drop at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia after Hillary Clinton completed her acceptance speech, July 28, 2016 (Gregory Reed/shutterstock.com).
Our nomination process is designed to enable candidates such as Bernie Sanders and Presidents Donald Trump, like them or not.

March 14, 2018|Alexis de Tocqueville, Blaise Pascal, Patrick Deneen, Peter Augustine Lawler, Restless Mind, why liberalism failed

Tocqueville Was Not a Prophet of American Doom

by Christopher James Wolfe|

The late Tocqueville scholar Peter Augustine Lawler used to say that Tocqueville believed things were “getting better–and worse–all the time.”

November 15, 2016|Alexander Hamilton, FDR, human nature, rights, Yuval Levin

The Federalist Papers and Us

by Christopher James Wolfe|

In Rekindling Constitutional Ambition, his recent post for Law and Liberty, Yuval Levin offered some particularly helpful insights for thinking through our constitutional problems. As Levin points out, friends of the Constitution are currently in a period of uncertainty about what goals they should be aiming for, even apart from the usual confusion over how to achieve their goals. Some friends of the Constitution argue that the election of Donald Trump to the presidency would allow for a revival (such as the writers at the Journal of American Greatness blog), while others (such as the signers of the Originalists against Trump statement) argue that it would undermine obedience to the Constitution as that document was originally intended.

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Book Reviews

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

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The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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Liberty Classics

Rereading Politica in the Post-Liberal Moment

by Glenn A. Moots

Althusius offers a rich constitutionalism that empowers persons to thrive alongside one another in deliberate communities.

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James Fenimore Cooper and the American Experiment

by Melissa Matthes

In The American Democrat, James Fenimore Cooper defended democracy against both mob rule and majority tyranny.

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Podcasts

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.

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Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

A discussion with Graham McAleer

Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

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Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

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America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

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