Government

August 29, 2025

Hurricane Katrina and the Disaster of Rule by Paperocracy

The saga of Hurricane Katrina began 20 years ago, on August 29, 2005, when Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco examined weather forecasts concerning a tropical storm that had assaulted south Florida but that was now a Category 3 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico and declared a state of emergency for all Louisiana. Continue Reading...

July 21, 2022

The end of Roe is the beginning of new life for citizens and their duties

Weeks after the Supreme Court’s landmark 6-3 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022), which held that the Constitution of the United States does not confer a right to abortion, the nation is still struggling to come to grips with its consequences. Continue Reading...

March 16, 2022

What can we expect from Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson?

There is almost no institution in the past 100 years that has more profoundly shaped American public life than the Supreme Court. As a result, the composition of the Supreme Court has become one of the most prominent issues in every campaign season—whether it is the presidential election cycle or the midterm congressional elections. Continue Reading...

March 15, 2022

Put the State of the Union address out of its misery

In the fable of “The Bell and the Cat,” a group of mice discuss how best to protect themselves from a rapacious, predatory cat who has been hunting them down. One mouse suggests they put a bell on the cat so they’ll know when the cat is approaching. Continue Reading...

February 28, 2022

Justin Trudeau’s political overreach is a greater threat to liberty than the truckers’ protest

The mask has been torn off. If anyone had any doubts that some governments will do literally anything to suppress anyone who protests what they regard as unreasonable measures by the state to address the COVID pandemic, events in Canada has surely disabused them of such illusions. Continue Reading...

February 02, 2022

Religious freedom must be protected even from the religious

These are strange times in the United States. We are now living under the second consecutive presidency whose legitimacy is disputed by a significant proportion of the American people. The typical debates about taxation and foreign policy have been eclipsed by arguments about identity politics. Continue Reading...

January 24, 2022

COVID-19 has exposed politicians who think themselves above the law

Each morning’s headlines in the British press bring new details of parties happening inside Boris Johnson’s government while the rest of the United Kingdom and much of the world was locked down in isolation because of the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2020 and well into 2021. Continue Reading...

January 17, 2022

Here’s how to offer reparations in a free society

Today we mostly associate the idea of reparations for America’s black population with left-wing politics, and that’s no surprise. Only Democratic candidates for president, such as Marianne Williamson, mention reparations as part of their political platform. Continue Reading...

January 16, 2022

Bob Dole left a legacy of civility and cooperation that is sorely needed today

One of the sadder deaths in 2021 was that of former Kansas senator Bob Dole. Wounded war-hero and long-serving politician, Dole was widely respected from people across the political spectrum not only for his skills but also for his willingness to try and work across divides to achieve common objectives. Continue Reading...

December 28, 2021

Facebook is a symptom of a much deeper Big Tech problem

At this point, most have heard about Frances Haugen, the whistleblower who leaked documents to the Wall Street Journal this fall detailing how Facebook knew about many of the downsides of its platform, yet chose to prioritize engagement. Continue Reading...

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