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  Back in 1968, Professor David Braybrooke published his book Three Tests for Democracy. Much of that work focuses on rights and welfare, bu...

In his excellent book on the history of American racial domination and genocide, Robert Jones focuses on "The Doctrine of Discovery,...

For at least a decade, I have been trying to get more respect for prudential values (that which is good for individuals and groups), based o...

  Possibly better known for her books on Arendt and Chesterton, Margaret Canovan was surely one of the most important British theorists of t...

In what is likely to be my last "scholarly paper" (journal publishing is just too aggravating for my delicate constitution), I arg...

In her excellent  New Yorker   portrait   of monarch-loving, narcissistic tech bro, Curtis Yarvin, Ava Kofman points out a couple of things ...

Many readers in my age bracket will know that many, perhaps most , of the desiderata of the Trump Administration have been around a long tim...

A recent commentary  put out by the European Center for Populism Studies   takes what I consider a mid-depth dive into the response of Marin...

Perhaps the most interesting facet of the doctrine according to which acceptable democracies require careful separation of the Executive, Le...

There have been four main strategies aimed at releasing electorates from what seem to me to be the dangerous effects of identity politics on...

  [T]he nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his concl...