Alexander Hamilton
My lack of schadenfreude worries me
Something has been bothering me of late, and that is my total lack of schadenfreude. The malicious pleasure at someone’s…
In defense of the Electoral College
Though often lost in the debate over the Electoral College, Article II in our Constitution created a system in which…
Trump’s Art of the Executive Order
The Executive Order is political weakness at its most powerful. The spectacle of Donald Trump adding his Sharpie-stroke to the…
The war of the statues is a battle for freedom
The war of the statues is no longer a battle over the memory of slavery, or the Confederacy, or the…
The Founding Fathers’ focus group on impeachment, 1787
We recently learned that House Democrats are concentrating their impeachment drive on ‘bribery’ because focus groups liked it better than…
