Alexander Hamilton

My lack of schadenfreude worries me

2 April 2022 9:00 am

Something has been bothering me of late, and that is my total lack of schadenfreude. The malicious pleasure at someone’s…

electoral college

In defense of the Electoral College

20 September 2020 10:35 pm

Though often lost in the debate over the Electoral College, Article II in our Constitution created a system in which…

executive order

Trump’s Art of the Executive Order

11 August 2020 11:28 pm

The Executive Order is political weakness at its most powerful. The spectacle of Donald Trump adding his Sharpie-stroke to the…

statues

The war of the statues is a battle for freedom

11 June 2020 2:36 am

The war of the statues is no longer a battle over the memory of slavery, or the Confederacy, or the…

founding fathers

The Founding Fathers’ focus group on impeachment, 1787

21 November 2019 4:46 am

We recently learned that House Democrats are concentrating their impeachment drive on ‘bribery’ because focus groups liked it better than…