From the monthly archives:| crookedtimber.org
If one has some familiarity with Russell Vought’s ‘radical constitutionalism’ or (which does not amount to the same thing) ‘national conservatism’ (of which Hazony is the pre-eminent thinker), one recognizes that Hamilton’s views are in the ascendancy.| 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
With collapsing stock markets, retirement portfolios, and consumer confidence, there is an all-too-human tendency to focus on the economic effects of tariffs by their critics: they are a tax on consumption, they will raise inflation, reduce efficiency, and reduce take-home income, etc. This is familiar.| Crooked Timber
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