Outside the Beltway

The courts and Congress are rolling back Executive actions.

Liberty may be natural to the individual, but political liberty remains an uncommon achievement.

The Curtis Yarvin interview.

The wrong solution for a real problem.

Don’t blame the primary author of The Federalist for our current mess.

Old men still bitter about where they went to college.

Much ado about a perfectly normal phenomenon.

The apparently eminent demise of abortion rights has reignited an old debate.

What are the limits of representation?

Looking to Federalist 22.

Defense of the filibuster tend to be a combo of mistakes and mythology.

America’s institutions are undemocratic but only some of them are a product of the Constitution.

Another unassailable if boring cabinet choice.

Gina Raimondo has apparently lost her copy of the Constituiton.

George Washington invented the concept and was quite clear that it did not apply to impeachment proceedings.

Republicans face a choice. Do they put their country first, or do they put their President first?

For a change not by me.

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that states cannot punish electors who fail to follow the will of the majority of voters n their state or state laws purporting to direct how they should vote.

While the drumbeat for impeachment of the President continues on the left, political reality suggests caution.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin punted once again on the question of replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, making clear that any change that does occur won’t happen until after Donald Trump is out of office.

A seemingly out-of-the-blue political movement is arguing in favor of independent election of Vice-Presidents.

Lyndon LaRouche, an eight-time Presidential candidate who ran a cult-like organization that spread bizarre conspiracy theories, has died at 96.

The way we elect Presidents make it unlikely that a third-party candidate like Howard Schultz could ever actually win the the Presidency.

While I was originally content to let Brett Kavanaugh sail through to confirmation, I now feel compelled to oppose his nomination to be a Supreme Court Justice.

A Federal Judge in Maryland ruled last week that a lawsuit against the President based on a rather obscure provision of the Constitution could go forward.