University toxicity: America should stop nursing the viper
Middle Americans are the givers. The professors and bureaucrats . . . are the takers. Gratitude is a rare commodity: It is human nature for the takers to resent the givers
State over federal power: The 100th anniversary of the Colorado River Commission
The Colorado River Commission was one of the most successful conventions of states ever held. Its achievement debunks uninformed claims that interstate conventions are “unprecedented” or cannot follow a pre-set agenda.
The Founders and the Twitter Mob
As the Founders recognized, the human impulse toward mob behavior is not going to disappear. But reforms can limit its influence.
Constitutional Originalists Love America
Being an originalist is not a good career move [but] we do it out of love.
Fact Check: No, overruling Roe v. Wade would not endanger other rights
Overruling Roe would have no effect on any of these other cases.
Left-wing conspiracy theories
The left advances crazy conspiracy theories not because they are true, but for political goals.
Why the Leak of the Draft Decision on Roe v. Wade?
A likely motive is to recreate what happened in Montana in 1972: to expose a potential swing justice to political pressure.
Are constitutional amendments coming?
Far from authorizing more federal power, amendments almost certainly will reduce federal prerogatives and edge us toward decentralization.
Truth and Tradition: Reflections on the Motto of a Great Newspaper
Any lady may travel alone, from one end of the United States to the other, and be certain of the courteous and considerable treatment everywhere — America as it used to be, according to Charles Dickins
Using the Constitution to Re-Rank the Presidents
Grover Cleveland belongs in the top 20 . . . Similarly, Calvin Coolidge should be in the top 20 , , , Lyndon Johnson belongs in the bottom five.
A Preliminary Response to Prof. Ablavsky’s “Indian Commerce Clause” Attack
An advocate of vast congressional power takes quotes out of context, misrepresents what others say, and makes historical errors
The ‘Independent Legislature Doctrine’—and why it frightens many on the left
The hysteria has been matched only by the detractors’ astonishing constitutional ignorance.
