The left is rediscovering century-old arguments for crippling the Supreme Court. As the Democrats contemplate their next possible window of power, proposals to “pack” the Supreme Court have become ...

The Northwest Passage promised prosperity; now it’s the newest theatre of increasingly tense geopolitics. Since the end of the fifteenth century, seafaring explorers have searched for a westward route ...

The Court’s shift from Lemon to history and tradition raises a new set of interpretative challenges. United States Supreme Court justices have long insisted that the Establishment Clause must be ...

It's not too late for Congress to reclaim its authority over the use of force. President Trump’s decision to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities in the summer of 2025, after joining Israel in its “12-day ...

The Founders’ constitutional morality demands more than mechanical checks and balances. Editor’s note: This article is a revised version of a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College’s Washington, DC, ...

It is still possible to tune out the endless broadcast. When he was four years old, my middle son taught himself to read. It was pandemic shutdown spring, so I was too busy homeschooling my oldest son ...

Collectively, Main Street Millionaires possess more than thirteen times the wealth of the Forbes 400. The Everywhere Millionaire may sound confusingly familiar to readers of Thomas J. Stanley and ...

There are few things politicians hate more than insignificance. Perhaps it is a reflection on the narrowness of my acquaintanceship that I know no one who fails to understand that government ...

The Constitution’s meaning does not run out merely because the evidence is contested. Originalism today is predominant yet divided. Courts regularly invoke original meaning, but originalist scholars ...

Two recent decisions show Chief Justice Roberts’s institutionalism can sometimes be more like illusionism. Chief Justice John Roberts’s twentieth year on the Supreme Court demonstrates the ...

Colin Kidd’s new book charts the fate of Britain’s elite intelligentsia in the postwar period. Adam Smith spent some of his most unhappy years as a student at Balliol College, Oxford. “It will be his ...

“Strict construction” is a taboo phrase, not just for judicial activists looking for unlimited government, but also for most originalists. Perhaps that is because the phrase can mean several different ...