The Electoral College and the Fallibility of the Majority
In the wake of the 2020 US election, there have been renewed calls to eliminate the electoral college and replace it with a national popular vote.
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What Can We Learn from the Trump Years?
Trump is the embodiment of American excess: pure anti-intellectualism, self-congratulation and wealth. His obsessive need to see more of himself in the world has committed him to imprinting his name…
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Why More Democracy Is the Last Thing We Need
The masses are respectable hands at fighting, but miserable hands at judging.—G. W. F. Hegel misquoting Goethe Remember Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There…
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Caste and Race in the Legal Systems of India and the United States
Comparison itself seems to imply a potential that may seduce into jumping far too early towards far-reaching conclusions.—Andre Gingrich Recent works by Isabel Wilkerson, Susan Bayly, Gail Omvedt, Célestin…
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Donald Trump and The Imbalance of COVID-19 Accountability
On the very day that the media rightly slammed President Trump for his claims to “Total Authority,” many in the press continued their now month-long run of stories condemning him…
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On Good Governance: The Federalist Papers, Diversity and Liberalism
Chris Hayes recently tweeted, “The least sexy part of socialism is effective, efficient bureaucratic administration but the project lives or dies based on it.” My purpose here is to utilize…
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Why the US Needs a Senate
In 1789, the Founders changed the way the world thinks about power. They united behind America’s overarching premise: the concentration of all power in a central authority must be challenged.…
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How Did Free Speech Get Here?
It was a good day for our public discourse when, on the popular public talk show Firing Line, conservative intellectual William F. Buckley had a conversation with avant-guard Beat poet…
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