Constitutionalism
May 12, 2026

The “Science Charade” After 'Chevron'

Like most complex systems, the administrative state resists easy answers.

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Politics
May 12, 2026

The End of the AI Binary

Being pro-AI does not require being pro-recklessness. It means building the conditions for AI to be deployed widely and quickly while permitting core institutions to keep pace.

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Politics
May 11, 2026

Founders Versus Managers: America’s Endless Civil War

It is the constant struggle between founders and those who prefer managing problems rather than solving them through bold action that has shaped the nation from 1776 until now.

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'Pluribus' Is About More Than 'the Warmth of Collectivism'

Pursuit of Happiness
May 8, 2026
'Pluribus' Is About More Than 'the Warmth of Collectivism'

The Firestorm Over Congressional Redistricting

Constitutionalism
May 8, 2026
The Firestorm Over Congressional Redistricting

Revisiting 'Zadvydas v. Davis' 25 Years Later

Constitutionalism
May 7, 2026
Revisiting 'Zadvydas v. Davis' 25 Years Later
Politics
April 27, 2026

The Iran War and America's Future Conflicts

What has the Iran War revealed about coming global conflicts that America could face?

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The End of the AI Binary

Being pro-AI does not require being pro-recklessness. It means building the conditions for AI to be deployed widely and quickly while permitting core institutions to keep pace.

Kevin Frazier
May 12, 2026
Founders Versus Managers: America’s Endless Civil War

It is the constant struggle between founders and those who prefer managing problems rather than solving them through bold action that has shaped the nation from 1776 until now.

Arthur Herman
May 11, 2026
'Pluribus' Is About More Than 'the Warmth of Collectivism'

In 'Pluribus,' Apple’s most-viewed drama, the integrity of the individual is the central theme.

Jonathan Miltimore
May 8, 2026
The Firestorm Over Congressional Redistricting

In the end, the Court will enter the political thicket through a side door that never should have been left open in the first place.

Richard Epstein
May 8, 2026
Revisiting 'Zadvydas v. Davis' 25 Years Later

Deportable aliens have no constitutional right to avoid detention.

Hans von Spakovsky
May 7, 2026
Teddy Roosevelt’s Expansive Spirit

Roosevelt left a mark not only on the American presidency but also on the American imagination, continuing to affirm the necessity of the American myth.

Emina Melonic
May 7, 2026
Trumpedelic

Lives are at stake, not just elections.

Paul J. Larkin
May 6, 2026
Chicago’s “Disappearing Middle Class” Can Be Found in Its Proliferating Upper Middle-Class Neighborhoods

The middle class has not been hollowed out; rather, the overall decline stems from the net movement of families upward into the upper-middle class.

Scott Winship
Apr 30, 2026
Is Economics a Failure?

Rather than ending with “economics is broken,” Alexander Rosenberg’s deliberately provocative book 'Blunt Instrument' argues that “economics is useful for a different reason than economists often say.” That is a serious and worthwhile thesis.

Michael Munger
Apr 16, 2026
Locke, Meet Claude

The concern is not regulation per se. It is a regulation that outruns its justification by arriving before the evidence, foreclosing the technology before its benefits are understood, and insulating the powerful from competition that would otherwise discipline them. That is the pattern worth resisting. 

Kevin Frazier
Apr 15, 2026
Is There Anything New Under the AI Sun?

OpenAI needs to build on the successes of open markets and turn away from regulation, taxation, and cartelization.

Richard Epstein
Apr 15, 2026
The Partisan Tax Divide Cuts Deeper Than You Think

Long-term stability demands that states prioritize core government functions, impose fiscal discipline, and reduce dependence on federal transfers.

Thomas Savidge
Apr 13, 2026
Lina Khan’s Continued Influence on the FTC

Consumer welfare and the U.S. business climate are especially subject to the blows dealt at the FTC.

Jessica Melugin
Apr 6, 2026
A Year of Tariff-Induced Stagnation

Broad-based tariffs won’t “liberate” anyone; they’re simply another way for the government to impose self-inflicted economic wounds.

Richard Stern
Apr 2, 2026
Founders Versus Managers: America’s Endless Civil War

It is the constant struggle between founders and those who prefer managing problems rather than solving them through bold action that has shaped the nation from 1776 until now.

Arthur Herman
May 11, 2026
Teddy Roosevelt’s Expansive Spirit

Roosevelt left a mark not only on the American presidency but also on the American imagination, continuing to affirm the necessity of the American myth.

Emina Melonic
May 7, 2026
Trumpedelic

Lives are at stake, not just elections.

Paul J. Larkin
May 6, 2026
Why Amtrak Needs Airport-Level Security

Cole Allen transporting weapons across the country on Amtrak highlights the issue.

Jonathan Hartley
May 5, 2026
Remembering and Rebuking the Covid Regime

Preventing a future repetition of this exercise in pandemic central planning will require removing “emergency” powers from political authorities who are all too keen to use them as instruments to impose an unattainable societal order.

Phillip W. Magness
May 4, 2026
Why America, Not Iran, Has the Stronger Legal Position in the Current War

There are both long and short time scales for evaluating the current conflict over control of the Strait of Hormuz.

Richard Epstein
Apr 29, 2026
The Cuba Play

Cuba, in relation to China and Russia, poses a threat due to the risk of weapons deployment or strategic positioning in the event of an attack on the US homeland.

Oscar Sumar
Apr 27, 2026
The Firestorm Over Congressional Redistricting

In the end, the Court will enter the political thicket through a side door that never should have been left open in the first place.

Richard Epstein
May 8, 2026
Revisiting 'Zadvydas v. Davis' 25 Years Later

Deportable aliens have no constitutional right to avoid detention.

Hans von Spakovsky
May 7, 2026
Colorado’s Secularist Hostility Strikes Again

The Supreme Court needs to give lower federal courts a more workable test for determining when facially neutral conditions constitute religious exclusion.

Tal Fortgang
May 5, 2026
On the Liberating and Living Truths of the Declaration of Independence

Clarence Thomas has done more to repudiate D.E.I. and restore America’s founding principles than any other American in the 21st century.

May 1, 2026
The Courage of Justice Thomas

Courage was the theme of Justice Clarence Thomas’s recent, profound speech at the University of Texas.

May 1, 2026
“Silent Clarence” Meets “Silent Cal”

The deepest parallel between Coolidge’s speech and Thomas’s is the exact point that agitates today’s Progressives: our inalienable rights and human equality are God’s gift, rather than government’s.

May 1, 2026
Justice Thomas’s Bulwark of Liberty

Woodrow Wilson’s disdain for natural rights and separation of powers is a stain on our history.

May 1, 2026
Why Humans Aren’t Clever Chimps

Why has primatology pushed the human-chimp connection?

Ronald W. Dworkin
Apr 24, 2026
“Project Hail Mary’s” Success: A Story You Can Believe In

The film features a weak, defeated man who turns from a coward to a hero, from selfishness to sacrifice, and from loneliness to friendship.

Titus Techera
Apr 17, 2026
Is America Good Enough for Wendell Berry?

Genuine traditions and stories can prevent their inheritors from recklessly chasing the future simply because it’s the next thing.

Brian Smith
Apr 10, 2026
Rediscovering History as the Story of Liberty

History can be a way to center ourselves today and renew the institutions and beliefs that are central to that history and its legacy.

Arthur Herman
Apr 9, 2026
James Q. Wilson and the Crisis of Our Time

"When we profess to believe in deterrence and to value justice, but refuse to spend the energy and money required to produce either, we are sending a clear signal that we think that safe streets, unlike all other great public goods, can be had on the cheap."

Titus Techera
Apr 8, 2026
Welcome to the Manosphere

What counter-programming might resonate, reaching young men with the message that unhealthy conspiracism and cartoonish machismo need not be a part of a healthy striver mentality?

Tal Fortgang
Apr 3, 2026
Celebrating Passover in Communist Exile

When we children found out the name of our feast, we had already crossed the big sea, eaten lots of bread dipped in sour milk, and the bitter herbs were beginning to taste quite sweet.

Juliana Geran Pilon
Apr 1, 2026

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