Greg Weiner, who teaches political science at Assumption College, is a former political consultant and the author of Madison’s Metronome: The Constitution, Majority Rule and the Tempo of American Politics. He is currently working on a book on the political thought of Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Media coverage of the contraceptive-mandate case has emphasized the red herring of whether for-profit corporations like Hobby Lobby can assert constitutionally or statutorily protected religious beliefs (see, for example, here). David Catron has a piece at The American Spectator
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The Senate occupies a unique place as the fulcrum of the constitutional order. The filibuster does not occupy a unique place as the fulcrum of the Senate. The course the body took Thursday—which limited the use of the device in
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This business of administrative fixes to duly enacted statutes, like the one President Obama announced to the Affordable Care Act Thursday, may or may not produce improved policy, but it is certainly horrendous constitutionalism, and those who utilize it today
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President Obama said in his Veterans Day remarks at Arlington National Cemetery Monday that when responsibility for security in Afghanistan is transferred next year, America’s “longest war” will come to a close. But America’s longest war, the ongoing war on
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Communism killed some 94 million people in the 20th century. It ranks alongside any other evil of that period, which is saying something. Consequently, no less than Nazism, it is not a word to be casually used or a charge
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