Design and Intent: Some Musing about the Constitution
We often conflate intentionality with design. However, even designers may not fully understand how what they have created will work.
We often conflate intentionality with design. However, even designers may not fully understand how what they have created will work.
Ron Paul is again making the argument that American foreign policy has contributed to terrorism. He’s more right than wrong.
Will 2012 be the Republican version of the 2008 race between President Obama and Hillary Clinton?
Ensuring the integrity of the voting process is a worthy goal, not evidence of discrimination.
Madison went to Philadelphia wanting to increase the power of the central government over the states (quite a bit, in fact).
As Hurricane Irene makes its way up the East Coast, Ron Paul says disaster relief isn’t a job for the Federal Government.
A case pending in Maryland raises the question of when boorish online behavior crosses the line from protected speech to criminal act.
Florida’s new law requiring welfare recipients to pass drug tests seems to clearly violate the Fourth Amendment.
Rick Perry’s rise in the polls can be traced to factors that threaten both Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann
Political journalists aren’t like you and me. Well, you, anyway.
The US came a lot closer to something resembling a parliamentary system than most people think.
Is America’s political system to blame for our current problems?
My first piece for CNN has been posted at Fareed Zakaria’s Global Public Square.
Updates to the Gross Domestic Product numbers for quarter two aren’t good, but they could have been worse. Still, the risk of recession is considerable.
Ben Bernanke didn’t offer many clues in his speech today, but one wonders if he really has any tricks left up his sleeve.
While Sarah Palin continues to tease her supporters about a possible Presidential run, the damage she could do to the GOP becomes even more apparent.
With a hurricane bearing down on the East Coast, the House Majority Leader is engaged in an accounting exercise.
That a popular two-term governor of Utah is being rejected by likely Republican primary voters as insufficiently conservative shows just how extreme American politics has gotten.
Before achieving astounding success, Steve Jobs had to experience disappointment and failure.
He’s been out of office for more than two years, but George W. Bush is still being blamed for the state of the economy.
The U.S may be on the verge of committing the next decade to the future of Afghanistan.
My latest for The National Interest is posted under the somewhat misleading headline “NATO Fails in Libya.”
Dick Cheney’s long-awaited book’s out and he promises lots of bombshells that will have heads exploding in DC.