An American Reconstruction

The revolution will take place within the modes and orders of American law even as it distorts and transforms that law.

For Non-Binary Arkansans, No ID, No Entry Into Public Life

The governor of Arkansas has intentionally demeaned minority communities in a state where their position is already precarious.

Elections Are Purely Practical

Don’t be vain about your vote.

The Case Against Despair

In politics sometimes you’re in government, sometimes you’re in the opposition, and sometimes you’re a dissident.

Yes to a Living City: Applying Jacobs' Principles to New York's Rezoning

The urbanism of Jane Jacobs, then and now.

The Courts and the Personalist Presidency

The erosion of democratic institutions on behalf of lobbyists, courts, and arbitrary personalism.

Unfriendly Skies

Price fixing and employment discrimination before airline deregulation.

Restoring Our Court

Judicial review is essential to our democracy, and that is why court reform is so important.

Four Questions for the New Industrial Policy

If we want to win the policy battles that are coming, we need to start thinking more clearly about the specifics.

Misappropriating Douglass

Frederick Douglass deserves every bit of the accolades heaped upon him, but he was not a libertarian—and this isn’t a close call.

The Democratic Peace as a Spontaneous Order

The importance of liberal democracy as a social system rather than merely as a state.

Democracy Demands Open Borders

Every immigrant is a vote for America. Every deportation is a vote against America.