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November 2, 2013|CEI, IRS, Michael Carvin, Obamacare, PPACA

Obamacare: The Impending Collapse

by Michael S. Greve|

Obamacare is on the ropes. As everyone is beginning to understand, the malfunctioning website is the least of it. There’s the millions of canceled individual policies, skyrocketing Medicaid enrollments … and much more trouble ahead. As previously reported, four pending lawsuits challenge an IRS rule that would extend the ACA’s coverage mandates and subsidies into states that have declined to establish a state exchange and are now operating under healthcare.gov. Sean Trende has a tremendous piece on the four cases here. Two of the cases were brought by states (Oklahoma and Indiana). The other two were cobbled together by the Competitive Enterprise…

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March 30, 2012|Michael Carvin, Obamacare, Paul Clement, PPACA

The Triumph of Constitutional Argument

by Michael S. Greve|

The legal professoriate and commentariat are completely unhinged over the impending demise of the individual mandate, the conservative justices supposed infatuation with Tea Party nostrums (see, e.g., Charles Fried’s pathetic tut-tut), and General Verrilli’s supposedly incompetent defense. So let’s go to the transcript and try to explain this one more time, in terms that even the Harvard crowd may be able to comprehend.

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January 13, 2012|Competitive Enterprise Institute, individual mandate, Joseph Antos, Michael Carvin, Obamacare, Paul Clement, PPACA, Thomas Miller, Tom Christina

Obamacare: The States’ Rights and Wrongs

by Michael S. Greve|

Briefs have been trickling into the U.S. Supreme Court in the Obamacare cases. Soon, they’ll come flooding: briefing on the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate is starting today.

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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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