Senator Warren: America’s Newest Corporate Raider?
Last week, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced the Accountable Capitalism Act, a fully drafted plan that would introduce federal supervision of the country’s large corporations and require...
View ArticleRichard Russell and the Importance of Remembering the Past
A republic perishes when its citizens no longer remember their past. Without an active remembrance of those who founded and protected its institutions through good times and bad, its citizens...
View ArticleEchoes of Our Great War
When describing the state of American politics today, pundits have often turned to the phrase: “partisan trench warfare.” Martial metaphors of all kinds are ubiquitous in our political commentary,...
View ArticleEnergy in the Legislature
The Vanishing Congress: Reflections on Politics in Washington is a curious hybrid. It is variously a primer on Congress’s constitutional duties, a scholarly (though note-less) consideration of how it...
View ArticleCongress Rebuked but Not Reimagined
“If we break this contract, throw us out. We mean it.” So pronounced the bottom line of a Republican National Committee ad, which laid out the Contract With America to TV Guide readers ahead of the...
View ArticleBipartisan Reform in a Fitful Senate?
Back in the antediluvian era of late February 2020, a group of 70 former U.S. Senators took to the opinion page of the Washington Post to lament the sorry state of America’s upper legislative chamber....
View ArticleMeet the New Boss
The most memorable official pronouncement during the financial crisis of 2008 came at a Senate Banking Committee hearing on July 15. There, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson explained why Congress...
View ArticleAn America in Need of a Cato
In the opening scene of Joseph Addison’s 1713 play, Cato, which George Washington had performed at Valley Forge in May 1778, one character pays another a compliment: Thy steady temper, PortiusCan look...
View ArticleImbalanced by Checks
Is democracy about politics or policy? Or, by some felicitous logic, do they end up coinciding? “Popularism” is the idea, currently urged by some on the center-left, that doing what the electorate...
View ArticleDo We Need a “Politics of Truth”?
In a recent Law & Liberty essay, Aaron Alexander Zubia meditates on the question of how Americans should approach the problem of “Saving Ourselves from Party Rage.” He does so by criticizing David...
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