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May 27, 2019|Alexander Hamilton, Anthony Peacock, Charles Beard, James Madison, John Jay, Martin Diamond, Publius, The Federalist, Thucydides

Refreshing and Disturbing: Anthony Peacock on Thucydides and The Federalist

by Karl Walling|

Peacock’s rediscovery of the lost Federalist is a much needed corrective to contemporary scholarship.

May 16, 2019|Cold War, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, How Public Policy Became War, New Deal, Progressivism, The Federalist, War on Drugs, Woodrow Wilson, World War I

Politics as War: A Conversation with David Davenport

by David Davenport|

President Roosevelt delivers a "Fireside Chat".
David Davenport discusses how we lost "the cool, deliberate sense of the community" in making public policy and embraced the war metaphor.

October 31, 2018|Alexander Hamilton, David Hume, Donald Trump, Faction, James Madison, tariffs, The Federalist

Why We Need Hume’s Wisdom on Factions

by Greg Weiner|

President Donald Trump at a press conference, April 27, 2018 (Nicole S. Glass/Shutterstock.com).
As long as presidential power grows, so will our obsession with it, and the people who occupy the Oval Office.

September 7, 2018|Charles Kesler, Claremont Review of Books, Donald Trump, George Washington, The Federalist

Trump and the Norm of Presidential Dignity

by Benjamin A. Kleinerman|

President Donald Trump is applauded by sheriffs at the White House. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
If the captain of the ship is unstable, the boat starts rocking even in still waters.

August 16, 2018|Alexander Hamilton, Impeachment, James Wilson, Joseph Story, The Federalist

The Ratification-Era Understanding of “High Crimes and Misdemeanors”

by Michael Stokes Paulsen|

Signing the Constitution, Louis Glanzman, 1987 (National Park Service)
Nearly all of the historical evidence favors a broad, political view of the impeachment power.

July 20, 2018|2017 tax reform, Federalism, SALT deduction, The Federalist

Post-Modern Federalism: SALT That Away

by Michael S. Greve|

It’s way too late to insist that our elected officials can’t just make up stuff. But there ought to remain a difference between a tweet and a federal lawsuit.

July 3, 2018|Abortion, Judge Robert Bork, judicial engagement, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Mary Ann Glendon, Originalism, Randy Barnett, Roe v. Wade, Roger Pilon, Supreme Court, The Federalist

The Kennedy Succession

by Greg Weiner|

As we consider Justice Kennedy's successor, we should ask what a conservative judge should believe about the role of the courts.

February 1, 2018|Barack Obama, Executive Power, George Washington, Jeffrey Tulis, President Donald Trump, The Federalist, The Rhetorical Presidency, Theodore Roosevelt

Presidential Rhetoric and the Challenge to American Constitutionalism: A Conversation with Jeffrey Tulis

by Jeffrey K. Tulis|

President Theodore Roosevelt
Have changes in the style and manner of presidential rhetoric in the 20th century served us well?

November 20, 2017|state constitutions, Texas Constitution, The Federalist

The Kaleidoscopic Joys of State Constitutionalism

by James R. Rogers|

Texas State Capital Rotunda, Austin, Texas.

In addition to requiring instruction in US government and politics, Texas law requires undergraduates at state-sponsored colleges and universities to take a course “which includes consideration of the . . . constitutions of the states, with special emphasis on that of Texas.” I am pretty sure part of the department’s deliberation at Texas A&M University in favor of hiring me those many years ago touched on the fact that the statistical portion of my dissertation drew on a unique state-level data set that I developed. The main point of interest would not be the uniqueness of the data set, but rather that I dipped into state legislative records. That thin reed was sufficient to justify my habitual assignment to teach the state-mandated course in state government, a course most of the faculty in the department preferred to avoid.

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November 14, 2017|accident and force, Alexander Hamilton, David Hume, Federalist 6, Philadelphia Convention, reflection and choice, The Federalist

Publius’ Conservative Values

by Greg Weiner|

Late last month, constitutionalists marked the publication 230 years ago of Federalist 1 with reveries about Publius’ call for Americans to rise to the occasion and show the world that governments could be founded on “reflection and choice” rather than “accident and force.”

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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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