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The Reconstruction Republicans: Answering the Slaveocratic Revolution

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Prisoners from the Front, Winslow Homer, 1866 (metmuseum.org)
A timely reminder of the full range of anti-republican institutions that the Confederacy fought a war to try to perpetuate.

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Thoughts on Strauss and Machiavelli

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Heinrich Meier's new book on the challenge of revealed religion to political philosophy.

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Let’s Talk about Sex

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A transpartisan consensus is forming around the importance of families to individual well-being, and the importance of genuine education to self-government.

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The Man We Buried in Grant’s Tomb

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The democratic hero: modest but dogged General Grant, with his homespun manners, who seemed just another face in the crowd.

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Plutarch and the Statesman’s Qualities of Soul

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Plutarch aimed at recovery of the political art under even the most inauspicious conditions.

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The Ford Restoration

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Occupying the White House in unfavorable circumstances can make a President fall back on his best friend: the U.S. Constitution.

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John C. Calhoun, Madisonian Manqué

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His institutional innovations were geared toward preserving slavery.

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The Road to Iranian Democracy

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The suppression of the Green Movement last time around widened the gulf between Iran's elite and its people.

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Justice Field: Hero or Villain?

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Field’s mode of analysis, although derided today as “substantive due process,” did not actually distinguish between substantive and procedural due process.

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Is It Time to Give Up Aggressive Crime-Fighting?

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Sharkey acknowledges that the decline in crime happened because of mass incarceration and a ramped up criminal justice system.

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