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November 12, 2019|and Global Capital, Borders, Education funding, free trade, Immigration, income inequality, Kimberly Clausing, Middle Class, Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade

Clausing’s Open: The Economist as Social Engineer

by Nikolai G. Wenzel|

The inconsistencies between Clausing 1.0 and Clausing 2.0 are indicative of an economics profession that has eschewed its own humble insights.

July 9, 2015|Education funding, Fundamental Rights, judicial activism, San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, State Courts, William Brennan

School Finance Farce (Part One)

by Mark Pulliam|

Amid all the controversy surrounding the recent SCOTUS decisions, it is easy to forget that federal courts do not have a monopoly on judicial activism.  State courts—and in particular state supreme courts—can and do make bad decisions, often cleverly insulating themselves from further appellate review by resting their decisions on “independent state grounds.”

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January 6, 2015|Education funding, Gannon v. Kansas, John Marshall, Judicial Review

What’s the Matter with Kansas?

by Greg Weiner|

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A Kansas court has just ruled that it would be unconstitutional under that state’s founding document to spend $548 million on police, infrastructure, health care or welfare. The court’s ruling does not explicitly disclose this, of course, nor will the judges on the panel admit it. But this is what happens when judges, who reside in a magical, apolitical world shorn of scarcity and therefore tradeoffs, mandate hundreds of millions of dollars in new education spending: The money comes from someplace else.

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May 16, 2012|Education funding, Medicaid funding, Senator Lamar Alexander

Smart Swap

by Michael S. Greve|

Riving a Reagan era proposal, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) has proposed a grand swap: give all of Medicaid (including full funding responsibilities) to the feds; in exchange, wipe out all federal education funding. As described in The Upside-Down Constitution, a very similar swap proposal  foundered in the Reagan era on the resolute opposition of the states and intergovernmental lobbies. Here’s to hoping that Senator Alexander’s proposal will receive a more favorable and constructive reaction this time around.

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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