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Every course in constitutional law begins with a discussion of Marbury v. Madison, an 1803 case that established the power of judicial review. Marbury struck down a federal statute that purported to enlarge ...
Come on in
When I was a boy, there was a revolution in Hungary against the communist government. The Soviet Union put it down brutally. Several hundred thousand Hungarians fled the country, some for the United States. My ...
COVID-19 and scientism
At the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, I was puzzled about how our reactions to it divided along party lines. There is no obvious reason why Democrats should fear sickness and death more than Republicans. ...
The will of the people
Left-leaning editorial writers and news anchors have recently been warning us that public approval of the Supreme Court is dropping. They refer to polls conducted by Gallup and the Annenberg Public Policy ...
Serra club
California's legislature now has it in for St. Junipero Serra, who has long been considered the founding father of the Golden State. Authorities let an angry mob tear down the Franciscan missionary's ...
Risky businesses
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report recently whose alarming rhetoric about carbon dioxide emissions ("code red for humanity") got me thinking again about nuclear energy. If ...
Who's your Daddy?
In Plato's "Republic," Socrates discusses a society in which the state arranges marriages among its best citizens and assigns their offspring to nurses chosen for the job, "employing every device to prevent ...
'Holy God, We Praise Thy Name'
Every 12 months or so, I'll remind my wife that I would like the recessional at my funeral to be "Holy God, We Praise Thy Name." I mentioned this to a friend last week and he said, with some surprise, ...
