This piece originally appeared at Real Clear Public Policy Monday, 6 February 2023, under the title "Recovering the Wisdom of Federalist 51" and the byline Adam Carrington

This piece originally appeared at Manhattan Contrarian Friday, 1 July 2022, under the title "There Are Two Fundamentally Irreconcilable Constitutional Visions" and the byline Francis Menton

It’s been a momentous couple of weeks at the Supreme Court. As usual, they saved the big cases for the end. This year the big three were Bruen [New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn, Inc v Bruen] (gun rights), Dobbs [Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization] (abortion rights) and West Virginia [West Virginia v Environmental Protection Agency] (administrative regulation of CO2).

This piece originally appeared in Spectator World Sunday, 15 May 2022, under the title "Why the Alito Opinion Is Too Normie" and the byline Josh Hammer

Pro-lifers should accept nothing less than federal protection of all unborn human life

This piece originally appeared at AMAC Newsline Monday, 31 January 2022, under the title "Citizens United: A Look Back at Historic Victory for Free Speech" and the byline Louis J. Senn

Last week, the major news coming out of the Supreme Court was the announcement that, after months of very public lobbying from progressive groups and even elected Democrats, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer would retire at the end of the current Court term. That news came on the heels of the Court saying that it would hear what promises to be the most significant challenge to race-based admissions standards — otherwise known as affirmative action — since 2016.

by Roger Kimball
Editor and Publisher, The New Criterion

The following is adapted from a lecture given the title "The January 6 Insurrection Hoax" delivered at Hillsdale College on 20 September 2021, during a Center for Constructive Alternatives conference on "Critical American Elections".

Reprinted by permission from Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College.

Notwithstanding all the hysterical rhetoric surrounding the events of January 6, 2021, two critical things stand out. The first is that what happened was much more hoax than insurrection. In fact, in my judgment, it wasn't an insurrection at all.

This piece originally appeared at RealClear Public Affairs Wednesday, 8 September 2021, under the title "The Supreme Court in the American Constitutional Order" and the byline Matthew J. Franck

This spring, President Biden appointed a 35-member Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, charged with soliciting expert views, deliberating among themselves, and reporting back to him on the subject of “reforming” the nation’s highest court. The commission’s members are themselves mostly eminent scholars of the Court’s work, preponderantly but by no means exclusively liberal ones. In their two public meetings so far (via Zoom), the members have taken written and oral testimony from 45 witnesses – also various eminences of the bar and the professoriate, and also mostly liberals.

by Christopher F Rufo
Founder and Director, Battlefront

The following is adapted from a lecture delivered on 31 March 2021, at Hillsdale College with the given title "Critical Race Theory:  What It Is and How to Fight It".

Reprinted by permission from Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College.

Critical race theory is fast becoming America’s new institutional orthodoxy. Yet most Americans have never heard of it — and of those who have, many don’t understand it. It’s time for this to change. We need to know what it is so we can know how to fight it.

This piece originally appeared at RealClear Public Affairs Tuesday, 16 March 2021, under the title "Top Five Reasons Why the Constitution Should Be Revered" and the byline Michael Warren

The United States Constitution is not some musty piece of parchment, written in barely legible calligraphy and irrelevant to our lives. To the contrary, it is a governing document of profound significance that all Americans should revere. If you don’t believe that, here are five reasons why you should change your mind.

This piece originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal Tuesday, 16 February 2021, under the title "An Unconstitutional Voting 'Reform'" and the byline David B. Rivkin, Jr. and Jason Snead

House Democrats have made election "reform" their top legislative priority. House Resolution 1, styled the For the People Act, would vitiate existing state election laws, federalize the rules of congressional and presidential elections, and effectively do the same for state elections, which are often conducted on the same ballot. Critics have noted that the proposed rules are designed to benefit Democrats.

This piece originally appeared at Breitbart.com Monday, 20 July 2020, under the title "Instead of Canceling our Culture It's Time to #canceldemocrats" and the byline Rep. Louie Gohmert

U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) speaking on House floor

Many on the left and their willing accomplices in the media would tell you otherwise, yet a cursory examination of our nation’s factual history and records proves the riots and chaos that have swept across our country in recent months stand as a devastating reminder of the racist policies and values held by the Democrat Party throughout much of its history.