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A Norm-Shattering Campaign in California

How to understand the campaign against California’s Judge Persky.

Higher Education Watch
Academics and “Intellectuals”

Can conservatives be worthy of the label?

political reform
The Extinction of Palo Alto?

Residents of the wealthy community pull up the ladder for people trying to move in.

Political Decay
The Return of History?

Alarming evidence for the erosion of democratic norms, especially among the young and the wealthy.

moving target
What Happened in Kansas?

Why the definition of “moderation” is up for grabs in the modern GOP.

cause and effect
A Dubious Defense of the Blue Model

‘Wealthy coastal states tend to vote for Democrats. Therefore, Democratic economic policies are superior.’ If this reasoning sounds fallacious, that’s because it is.

the third branch
Can the Supreme Court Survive the Next Presidency?

A high-enough level of polarization will undercut the Supreme Court’s legitimacy.

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2016
Putin Is a Distraction

It’s easy to blame a revisionist Russia for the teetering of the liberal democratic order. It’s harder to repair our institutions so that they can resist it.

2016
The Irony of Philadelphia

Despite historic left-wing agitation during the Obama years, the 2016 Democratic ticket is more moderate than the last one.

Political Decay
The Make-Believe Supreme Court and the Coming Constitutional Crisis

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s comments on the election show that the fiction of the non-partisan justice is fraying, but the looming ideological transformation of the Court threatens to vitiate it altogether.

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