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  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...

  Just the other day, in response to a question from an interviewer, Elon Musk said this (essentially anyhow, I've cleaned it up a bit f...

    In a recent paper in the Journal of Democracy , Adam Przeworski asks "Who decides what is democratic?" As someone who has spen...

A few days ago, I attended three of the four sessions of an extremely interesting and timely conference on the First Amendment at Yale Law ...