Politics & Power

Constitution Day

A reflection on Constitution as regime, by the late Wilson Carey McWilliams

The Politics of the Pro-Life Movement

A few years ago I wrote something of an irenic essay on the annual, January, March for Life in Washington DC.  I was in...

Saul Sung True

From The American Conservative, Reason's Jesse Walker on Nicholas von Hoffman's Saul Alinsky.

How To Talk About Race

Hillsdale, Michigan. After the George Zimmerman verdict, President Obama talked about the need for a conversation on race in the United States. He also...

My Little Ole Ballot Box

Making the case for nuclear power. Since everyone else is.

The Silly Season is Here Again

Elections are here, but manure-spreading is nothing new.

The Cost of Everything

Without proper accounting, there can be neither honest pricing nor clean water.

SB 1070 and the Limits of Decentralism

Phoenix, AZ. In the days leading up to this year’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game, which will be held in Phoenix on July 12, there...

What Does it Declare?

The Manhattan Declaration is almost a month old and it still a statement I regard with great ambivalence. My discomfort owes partly to...

Group Decisionmaking and Individual Responsibility

Part of the pushback against the notion that groups can make decisions comes from the fear that we already use groups to absolve ourselves...