Freedom of speech was silenced in Athens when that otherwise liberal democracy gave Socrates the hemlock. Of course, it may be stretching things to regard Athens...
A lot of sophomoric tripe has been uttered in the media about freedom of speech in reaction to the terrorist attack at Muhammad Cartoon Contest in...
I have been a student of Thomas Jefferson for many years. I own and have read dozens of books about the life and thinking of the...
Baltimore, Maryland, came close to destroying itself last night (April 27). In 1968 the city ran riot after Martin Luther King died. It still had not...
The Hillary Clinton Foundation affair poses a greater hazard than a Secretary of State taking bribes (or extorting money) for official business. She helped decide matters...
By now the scandals surrounding Hillary Clinton, her private e-mail server, and her private family foundation have the country buzzing. All but David Brock at Media...
In July 2008, I was asked to draft a paper on presidential government for a small committee of distinguished academics including professor of law Uriel Reichman,...
The greatest work on the design of political institutions – one that transcends Aristotle’s discussion of that topic in The Politics – is The Federalist Papers,...
A new movement begins this week to ratify an old Constitutional amendment. Those who direct it, hope to “pack” the U.S. House of Representatives. To do...
On two different occasions I’ve been contacted by people who have received the American Community Survey (formerly known as the long form census). These people felt...