by Henry Oliner | Aug 2, 2018 | Politics
from the WSJ Bobby Jindal writes This Political Fight Will Go Many More Rounds The political stakes are especially high when it comes to the judiciary. A president wins election thanks to voters in a few decisive states. He nominates a new Supreme Court justice, who...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 17, 2018 | Politics, Progressivism
from Jonah Goldberg at National Review, The People We Deserve: But there are limits. Rousseau was among the first moderns to articulate an “ideal” society — one that laid down the foundations for many totalitarian projects to follow. Nonetheless, he believed that his...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 4, 2018 | Politics, Progressivism
I just completed Jon Meacham’s biography of Andrew Jackson, American Lion. The most important action of Jackson delayed the Civil War. Jackson stood for Union solidarity when Calhoun and South Carolina supported nullification. Their call to action was aimed at The...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 28, 2017 | Politics, Progressivism
From The Washington Post and George Will, Progressives are wrong about the essence of the Constitution: The fundamental division in U.S. politics is between those who take their bearings from the individual’s right to a capacious, indeed indefinite, realm of freedom,...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 17, 2017 | Politics, Progressivism
Andrew Cline at National Review reminds us of one of the side benefits of a Trump presidency – that the left will rediscover the genius of the constitutional limits on executive power -in The Real Hero of the Trump Resistance? James Madison. “I don’t think that...
