To protect its freedom and prosperity, America doesn't need monsters to destroy, or a league of democracies to lead ..read more

Despite the persecution, the Maduro regime has not stopped the opposition's campaign, which has slightly increased the hope of Venezuelans ..read more

Federal spending on economic development is constantly being redirect by political influence ..read more

Contrary to accusations that Amy Coney Barrett is drifting left, she is doing the hard work of building up the originalist legal culture ..read more

In his lead essay, Capt. Hendrix argues that the United States is ill-prepared for a multipolar age and its resultant great power competition. To shake off the bad habits engendered by our unipolar moment, Hendrix urges us to study the multipolar systems of pre-World War II eras, to strengthen our alliances with other democratic nations, and, more broadly, to conjure the will to defend the “Empire of Liberty” which American statesmen have built over the past eight decades. There is much to admire in Hendrix’s piece, and he is largely correct in his prescriptions. But Hendrix mischaracterizes t ..read more

As courts and administrative agencies encounter uncertainty posed by the post-Chevron era, a few foundational principles remain in place and serve as guides through doctrinal disruption. For one, courts have the authority and capacity to say what the law is. Likewise, if Congress unambiguously mandates a specific agency action, including the means to perform that act, jurists and scholars alike agree that Congress’s mandate must be followed. Absent that statutory clarity, the deference afforded to an agency’s interpretation of ambiguous language varies in light of several factors. Among legal ..read more

Bob Newhart has died at the age of 94—the comic who was our last connection with mid-century America. He became famous with the live comedy album The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart (1960), which was a big hit, selling more than 1,000,000 copies and winning him two Grammys: Best New Artist and Album of The Year. He was 30 and had already arrived at a style that would serve him well his entire career, eventually turning him into a beloved American figure—not merely an entertainer, but an embodiment of an important part of American character. His early balding and somewhat melancholy eyes marked ..read more

Given the hoopla, the most striking thing about Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority opinion in Trump v. United States is how little it decides: Neither Congress nor an overzealous prosecutor can transform a president’s use of his removal power into a crime, since the Constitution makes the decision to fire an executive-branch officer the “exclusive and preclusive” prerogative of the president. That’s it. Trump is a huge win for President Andrew Johnson, but he’s dead. Roberts (joined by all five of the conservative justices) sent the rest of Jack Smith’s complex indictment back to the DC Circ ..read more

There is a crisis of political legitimacy in both of the countries, Britain and France, in which I have a home. Both countries have an electoral system well-suited to a political life in which there are two overwhelmingly dominant parties: the Conservatives and Labour in Britain, the Gaullists and the Socialists in France.  But when political life fractures or splinters into more factions, each with a considerable number of votes, what results is over-representation in parliament of some parts of the population, and under-representation of others.  This in turn has two major conseque ..read more

On March 8, 2022, police officers in Bullhead City, Arizona, arrested Norma Thornton for serving home-cooked meals in a park near her home. The city charged her with violating an ordinance that essentially prohibits anyone from sharing food on public property for charitable purposes. Under that ordinance, individuals may share food on public property for any purpose whatsoever, so long as their motivations are not charitable or they are charging money. Thornton was not trying to profit in any way. She was motivated only by a desire to feed the hungry. That made her a criminal.  Altho ..read more