Yes, here is the great question that has gripped me about the Egyptian coup; would there have been democracy tomorrow if not a coup of the democratically elected Islamists yesterday? Ken Masugi asks, “Was the anti-Morsi coup in Egypt justified on liberal and democratic grounds?”He . . . . Continue Reading »
Jean wrote this morning. I haven’t gotten her permission to post her astute comments. But I will mention a couple of points: Jean is right that it’s pretty misleading to lump LOCHNER with ROE and DRED SCOTT as substantive due process evildoing. The issue in LOCHNER is something over . . . . Continue Reading »
So having read Bob’s post and Carl’s very thorough and elegant response, let me offer a somewhat different view on the relationship between the progessive TR and our (new kind of) progressive Justice Anthony Kennedy. So TR and TK are both about constitutional development, that’s . . . . Continue Reading »
My On The Square column today is about how Republicans underperform even among African-Americans and Latinos who express right-leaning policy preferences. Basically, the lack of a Republican agenda that takes into account the struggles of much of the lower-middle-class makes it easier for Democrats . . . . Continue Reading »
Let’s hope that our (!) Jean Yarbrough, and perhaps even Scott Yenor and Ronald Pestritto will respond to Bob Patterson below. Here’s my two cents, based on an analysis of TR’s “The Right of the People to Rule” speech from 1912. The speech features both an ingenious riff . . . . Continue Reading »
Here is Bob’s spirited reponse to all the Teddy bashing we’ve had on this channel: It came as no surprise that my interlocutors in a recent Claremont Institute symposium, following in the tradition of Leo Strauss, are no fans of Theodore Roosevelt. But things went a little far when the . . . . Continue Reading »
Bobby Jindal has written an article on immigration reform. Reihan Salam comes down pretty hard on it . Jindal is against the Gang of Eight plan, but the main difference I see between Jindal and the Gang of Eight is that Jindal wants the process of certifying the border secure to happen before the . . . . Continue Reading »
So AFTER MIDNIGHT last might, I got emails from those two SEATON BROTHERS—Paul and Gary. Gary sent the good news that MARILYNNE ROBINSON has won the NATIONAL HUMANITIES MEDAL—the same award given (under Republican administrations) to Walker Percy, Tom Wolfe, and Harvey Mansfield. And of . . . . Continue Reading »
Thoughts on the politics of abortion over at National Review Online. . . . . Continue Reading »
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