A legal scholar argues that Trump's lawless border policies threaten to undermine civil liberties for all of us| Salon.com
As regular readers know I think it’s a mistake to treat Locke as the founder of liberalism.| digressionsimpressions.substack.com
This is the second post in a series of posts on Russell Vought’s programmatic (2022) essay “Renewing American Purpose: Statesmanship in a post-Constitutional moment,” The American Mind. (The first was here yesterday.) Yesterday, I focused on Vought’s diagnosis of the failures of Trump 1, and I explored some of the intellectual roots of the framework he proposes to take up in — as one may surmise from what is unfolding already — in Trump 2.| digressionsimpressions.substack.com
After they leave office or government service, high ranking, former government officials usually do not present a vision of how things might well be improved in their former abodes.| digressionsimpressions.substack.com
A brief note on the inherent media problem with covering galactically stupid policies.| danieldrezner.substack.com
Relatively quickly after the start of President Trump’s second administration, critics accused it of generating a constitutional crisis (see here in the NYT).| digressionsimpressions.substack.com
Today's post is a bit of a ramble on a topic that I often think about yet have no firm opinion regarding. The issue is the tendency to treat...| sootyempiric.blogspot.com