Alan Dershowitz’s Standard for Impeachment Would Make the Constitution Self-Undermining
Not every abuse of power calls into question the president’s fealty to the Constitution itself. This one does.
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Does a Doomed Impeachment Lessen the Dignity of Our Institutions?
It’s interesting to imagine how all of this would be playing out under the original constitutional design.
In Defense of Zachary Evans: A Reply to David French
I read Zack’s piece largely as an article about people building a home and encountering bigotry while doing so.
Trump’s Impeachment and the Varieties of Presidential Corruption
Official corruption is intolerable regardless of its direct consequences.
Re: What They’re Not Telling You about the Infamous ‘Shoot Them’ Trump Rally
Rich’s post asserts nothing that I disagree with but nonetheless omits what I think it is most important to say.
‘Let Them Stay’
Our former intern Christian Alejandro Gonzalez has a piece at The Weekly Standard on the Trump administration’s decision to revoke Temporary Protected Status from hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals ...
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Understanding the decisions made leading up to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan will lead to further clarity when facing difficult decisions on modern battlefields.
‘Deleted’ Families and the Instrumentalization of Human Beings
The gist of two reports were that that the administration issued its family-separation policy with approximately no idea how it would eventually put the families back together.
How Do You Spot a Demagogue?
One way, I would suggest, is that he uses language to manipulate people into defining their patriotism in terms of him and his political agenda rather than in terms of ...
Michael Potemra’s Two Themes: Religious Pluralism and Human-Rights Libertarianism
I am slow to eulogize our late literary editor Michael Potemra, of whose death we learned last week, but I wanted to add a few memories to those my colleagues ...