Jonah Goldberg

March 28, 2019|anti-growth, Digital Technology, Greta Thunberg, Jonah Goldberg

The Technological Sources of Anti-Growth Politics

Greta Thunberg speaks at the European Economic and Social Committee plenary session in Brussels, Belgium on February 21, 2019 (Alexandros Michailidis / Shutterstock.com).

Growth is only being demonized because it has been disenchanted, courtesy in part of digital technology.

December 4, 2018|Checks and Balances, Edmund Randolph, House of Representatives, James Madison, Jonah Goldberg, Niccolo Machiavelli, Senate

Real Purpose of the Senate: To Check the Actions of the House

by James Wallner|5 Comments

The Old Senate Chamber in the U.S. Capitol (image: Architect of the Capitol)

Senatorial independence is the highest value, said the Founders—more important than the particular interests of the states from which U.S. senators come.

Reconsidering the Sources of American Liberty

by Tony Williams

Wormersley's volume addresses the sources of American Revolution and how those ideas fashioned American understandings of liberty.

Just Before the Return of the Strong Gods: On Charles Péguy’s Temporal and Eternal

by James Matthew Wilson

Nature hates a vacuum, and if modern civic life does not fill itself with a range of sound mystiques, others, more dark, will make an entrance.

The Populist Presidency vs. The Founders' Presidency

A discussion with Stephen F. Knott

Stephen Knott discusses the immense revolution in power that has remade the American presidency over the past century.

Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution

A discussion with Greg Weiner

Greg Weiner discusses the difference between the political constitution and the judicial constitution.

Managing Whiteshift

A discussion with Eric Kaufmann

A discussion with Eric Kaufmann about white majorities and the future of politics in western democracies.

Brexit Shenanigans and the Old English Constitution

A discussion with Helen Dale

Helen Dale discusses Brexit, the English Constitution, and the future of British politics.

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