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When Westphalia Fades
What is wrong with America? It does not seem to work anymore. Low employment, static wages, burdened business, persistent poverty, destructive lifestyles, exploding debt, threatened entitlement bankruptcy, and stagnation generally seem to be its future, following the path to decline
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What Do Americans Voting with Their Feet Prefer? Better Public Services or More Cash?
In his new book, Average is Over, Tyler Cowen makes a number of observations about the intersection of technology and society, and explains how these shifts will impact our society. Specifically, Cowen argues that being average is over. Echoing
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This Republic of Federalism
Timothy Sandefur’s The Conscience of the Constitution contributes to the debate over the best way to limit the powers of the United States government in order to secure liberty. Sandefur, a lawyer and legal scholar, believes that 
“American constitutional history
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Clarifying the State of Our Liberty
I am grateful for to Peter Lawler for his interesting comment on my post. I agree with much of it. My focus in The State of Our Liberty—an implicit response to the State of the Union– was on the
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Live (Almost) From New York
Yesterday, the folks at the Manhattan Institute (who have done terrific work on pensions and other state policy issues) did an interview with yours truly, on a wide range of federalism-related issues. The podcast is here. Comments welcome.
Thanks,
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The Progressive Decline of the Senate
You would have thought we were watching a Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ending with the corrupt Senator shooting filibustering good guy Jimmy Stewart.
Whatever good or ill the filibluster has produced in years past, reliance on this and other
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Polarization and Federalism
Today’s (Sunday’s) Washington Post has a long, interesting, data-filled article documenting the astounding polarization of American politics at all levels—in Congress, between states, across electoral districts, at the county level, and among population groups that live in different universes, functionally
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