Jacob Rodriguez is a graduate student in political science at Baylor University. In late January, Senator Mike Lee (R–Utah) suggested an unorthodox idea to address the problem of drugs and violence along the southern border: to use letters of marque …| The Constitutionalist
Jordan Cash is an Assistant Professor in James Madison College at Michigan State University. It has become something of a tradition for lame duck presidents to issue controversial pardons on their way out of office. Bill Clinton pardoned both his …| The Constitutionalist
Joseph Natali is a graduate student in Political Science at Baylor University. On a recent episode of the popular podcast All In, venture capitalist and Trump supporter David Sacks concisely articulated a key aspect of the President Elect’s platform. “I’d …| The Constitutionalist
Roger Abshire is Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Political Science at Texas State University. President Biden has continued the trend of recent presidents by granting very few pardons during the working portion of his term, by which …| The Constitutionalist
Benjamin A. Kleinerman is the R.W. Morrison Professor of Political Science at Baylor University. He is the Editor of The Constitutionalist. There was a recent proposal at my University to have a campus-wide event commemorating October 7. They proposed bringing … The post There are no “both sides” to October 7 appeared first on The Constitutionalist.| The Constitutionalist
David Lewis Schaefer is Professor Emeritus, Political Science at College of the Holy Cross. Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince (1527) has typically been dismissed as a how-to book on how ambitious would-be tyrants can acquire and hold power. But before succumbing …| The Constitutionalist
Jordan Cash is an Assistant Professor in the James Madison College at Michigan State University. In the weeks since the presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the question that continues to dominate American politics is “what are the … The post “What do you do about a problem like Joe Biden?” appeared first on The Constitutionalist.| The Constitutionalist
David Lewis Schaefer is Professor of Political Science at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. He is author of The Political Philosophy of Montaigne (Cornell University Press, 1990; rpt. 2019) and of Illiberal Justice: John Rawls vs. the … The post Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, The Tyranny of the Minority. New York: Crown, 2023 appeared first on The Constitutionalist.| The Constitutionalist
Thomas F. Powers is Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science at Carthage College. He is the author of American Multiculturalism and the Anti-Discrimination Regime: The Challenge to Liberal Pluralism. Brown v. Board of Education famously restored the … The post Is the ”Ellerth-Faragher Test” as Important as Brown v. Board of Education? appeared first on The Constitutionalist.| The Constitutionalist
Steven Bilakovics is a Lecturer in Political Science at University of California, Irvine. He received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. When reason loses authority, violence fills the vacuum. James Baldwin For many years, I’ve opened my course … The post Judging Democracy appeared first on The Constitutionalist.| The Constitutionalist