“The tone and tendency of liberalism... is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.” Benjamin Disraeli Disraeli by Sir John Everett Millais [1881]

Delighted to have my essay on American literature published in Constituting America's series on de Tocqueville's Democracy in America.

Should the secular state determine religious purposes? My assessment of an important case that SCOTUS will hear on Monday. Many thanks to First Things .

Curious about the prospects for reviving nondelegation this term? Read about today's SCOTUS oral arguments: dailysignal.com/2025/03/26/sup…

With SCOTUS hearing oral arguments today, here's what's at stake in Catholic Charities v. Wisconsin:

tn The folks rejecting the tariff tool don’t have any plan to bring back manufacturing that will enrich middle class workers with a family wage. Their goal is an ever-rising GDP line on a graph, a free market fundamentalism which has sold out American workers and families for the

“I am an economic nationalist. To me, the country comes before the economy; & the economy exists for the people. I believe in free markets, but I do not worship them. In the proper hierarchy of things, the market must be harnessed to work for man - and not the other way around.”

When the last administration already massively disregarded the law, it makes no sense to worry that what the current one does will somehow license disregard of the law in the future. The issue is instead one of how the law allows past illegality to be undone.

de Tocqueville had thoughts on administrative governance? Of course he did. That and some other reflections on nondelegation as we await Scotus's decision in FCC v. Consumers' Research: heritage.org/courts/report/…

"Liberals, he complained, had confected a meaningless moral Esperanto from the fragments of post-Enlightenment discourse, a language that was meant to be understood by all and so could be understood by none."

Only a 20th-century court accustomed to making the individual the measure of all things could concoct the fiction that religion is a matter confined to the conscience and private prayers of the solitary believer. dailysignal.com/2025/05/28/on-…

Whatever one thinks of the tariffs, the opinion setting them aside is a weak one. The court makes noises about "major questions" and "nondelegation" but it applies neither doctrine, fashioning its own ad-hoc limits instead. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Two federal courts strike down Trump tariffs. Jack Fitzhenry & I explain what happened here: dailysignal.com/2025/05/30/tru… Federalist Society Edwin Meese III David Safavian Doug Deason Brett L. Tolman Braden Boucek

At least SCOTUS can be unanimous about the obvious: Catholic Charities performs religious works, leading this observer to wonder why did we need SCOTUS to settle that question? supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf…

Far from avoiding entanglement in doctrinal questions, Wisconsin managed to back itself into deciding religious matters it was totally unequipped to resolve. On today's opinion in Catholic Charities v. Wisconsin: dailysignal.com/2025/06/05/wis…

Unlimited power for AI companies is going to promote “democratic values”? Just like unlimited free trade was going to democratize China. Globalists are always finding reasons to take working people’s rights & jobs. And those reasons always just happen to make them richer

Theology of the body developing into a theology of sports. Love it.

Senators Josh Hawley and Sen. Marsha Blackburn are standing up for states' rights and fighting against this provision, and I support and am grateful for their efforts!

On the Supreme Court's reluctance to revive nondelegation this term: dailysignal.com/2025/06/30/sup…

Justice Jackson has been nuanced in her short tenure, but it is doubtful that her prolific and eccentric performance at the close of the '24 term has helped her legacy: dailysignal.com/2025/07/02/con…