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The Tax Code Is the Abundance Agenda’s Missing Villain
A debate focused almost entirely on permitting and regulatory reform is insufficient. The tax code cannot remain a footnote. It is the missing villain.
The Dignity of Relational Beings
Advancements in technology may lead us to discount the personal effort required to show up for others.
Dishonor and the Civil Service
A timely reflection on whether public servants should follow orders they believe are wrong, or act on their own moral judgment, Nielson explores the tension between duty, conscience, and the limits of obedience within a democratic system.
Adams’ Duplicitous Cabinet
A reader who doesn’t share Chervinsky’s complacent certitudes might find everything to reject in her assertions.
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The Tax Code Is the Abundance Agenda’s Missing Villain
A debate focused almost entirely on permitting and regulatory reform is insufficient. The tax code cannot remain a footnote. It is the missing villain.
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Washington’s Housing Fix Isn’t a Fix
Empower markets over bureaucrats. Allow private capital to flow. And most importantly, let builders build.
The Economist Who Knew Too Much
Peru’s situation highlights a broader lesson: development rarely turns on electing the “right guy” alone; it depends on whether a country is willing to adopt the institutions that make prosperity possible.
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The Tragedy of Paul Ehrlich
In Ehrlich's view of the world, every new person is just a stomach and a pair of hands.
Cut Licensing, Cut Prices, Embrace AI
There’s a quiet and much more practical reform that could win support from both sides and truly bring down prices: occupational licensing.
Why Can’t We Have a Real Filibuster?
The history of congressional reform is the history of unintended consequences.
The Ways, Means, and Ends of FDR
David Beito’s "FDR: A New Political Life" could have been subtitled "A New Political Death."
Mamdani’s Audacious Estate Tax for New York
It is up to cooler heads to see that Mamdani's wild ambitions can never be converted into law.
Oil, War, and Peace
The deeper question about these matters is why the energy crunch had to occur at all.
Iran and the Laws of War
The Iran war gives the United States the opportunity to re-formulate the rules of war, not to fight the old conflicts of the twentieth century.
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The Temptation of the Inferior “Imperial Judiciary”
This status quo is not sustainable. Either the President will retain his role as the chief of the executive branch, or he will not. Either the Supreme Court will retain its position as the Supreme Court, or it will not.
Major Questions Doctrine and Its Bipartisan History
Administrative law is important because it provides the framework for so many significant fights about policy. Unfortunately, it is also often misunderstood.
Trump’s Tariff Tantrum
Trump leaps from the frying pan into the fire in the aftermath of Learning Resources v. Trump.
The Administrative State’s Sludge
Congress has delegated so much power across so many statutes that it’s hard to find a question of any public importance to which some agency cannot point to policymaking authority.
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The Roberts Court Invokes Congress and the Constitution
The Court's message is that ultimate policy authority lies in the hands of Congress.
The Dignity of Relational Beings
Advancements in technology may lead us to discount the personal effort required to show up for others.
Adams’ Duplicitous Cabinet
A reader who doesn’t share Chervinsky’s complacent certitudes might find everything to reject in her assertions.
The Mores of Machines
As AI agents begin to form societies of their own, the Frenchman who came to understand ours may yet again have the last word.
Gratitude, Grit, and Miracles: The New Facts of Jewish Life in America
Jews have rarely lived among neighbors who regarded their lives as valuable as anyone else’s — who would risk their own lives rather than look the other way.
Becoming All-American
Blue Moon takes place on the evening of March 31, 1943, the opening night of Oklahoma!
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