Friday, May 22, 2026

Oh yeah? MAKE ME!

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  OK, maybe might can't "make right" all by itself. But could power nevertheless be in the mix that has to be used to bake any...
Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Kendall III (along with Locke, Hall, and Rawls): On Social Compacts

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  In what Willmoore Kendall likely thought was his most important paper, "The Ultimate Issue Between Liberalism and Conservatism,"...
Friday, May 1, 2026

A Little Note on the New Voting Rights Act Decision

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Naturally, there is a ton of interest in both the majority opinion and the dissent in Louisiana v. Callais . (Probably the paper  I have se...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Willmoore Kendall II: How a Conservative Populist Became a Majoritarian in Name Only

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  Since writing my previous piece on Willmoore Kendall, I have read Christopher Owen's recent biography   of that conservative iconocla...
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Sunday, March 8, 2026

What Comes First in My Democratic Theory

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  Theological discussions have long been riddled with arguments between those who think God created humans and those who think humans create...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Should Democracy Backers Now Love "States' Rights"?

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  "Progressives" have long been wary of "states' rights." That take is unsurprising, since "constitutional argu...
Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Willmoore Kendall, Irascible Drunken McCarthyite, YES; Brilliant Scholar, NO. Part I. Socrates, Mill, and Free Speech

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  I've spilled considerable ink to date on Carl Schmitt, having reviewed several books on the Nazi jurist/theorist and mused about his l...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

What is "Direct Democracy"? What is "More Democracy"? What is Less?

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  The dawn of the 21st Century in the U.S. resembled the opening of the 20th in producing an explosion of interest in participatory democrac...