Constitutions and Chaos
The Ken Burns theme that the creation of the U.S. Constitution saved this country from “chaos” exaggerates the difficulties the new nation
The Ken Burns theme that the creation of the U.S. Constitution saved this country from “chaos” exaggerates the difficulties the new nation
Israel barred foreign journalists from reporting in Gaza after the start of the war in 2023. BTW, Israelis now openly call for
The US’s bombing of Caracas reiterates three key foundations of American foreign policy: the Constitution is dead, democracy is irrelevant, and the
Bari Weiss gate-keeps the right against antiwar conservatives. Sound familiar?
Long before Soviet propaganda cynically rebranded the Nazis as “bourgeois,” and long before modern academics lazily stamped them “far-right,” Mises dismantled National
Trump justifies his war on Venezuela by saying that “they” stole “our” oil. Unpacking this claim gives us insight into Trump’s version
President Trump’s latest national security initiative is unlikely to make the US secure from outside danger. For that matter, Trump’s own internal
From war to tariffs to inflation, it is clear Donald Trump is a devoted disciple of the ideology of statism and interventionism.
Sensing the dangers of tyranny by the majority, John C. Calhoun developed the doctrine of the concurrent majority which served to limit
Zohran Mamdani held his mayoral swearing in ceremony at the now-abandoned City Hall Station that was a feature of the first New