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The Lawsplainer: A Matter of Nondelegation

/April 3, 2019

The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. The doctrine of nondelegation has in recent years increasingly become a mainstay of conservative and libertarian jurisprudence. This counterrevolution against the bureaucratic hedonism of the federal administrative state crescendoed most recently with the appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court of the […]

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Why Howard Schultz Should Run for President: It’s Not Because He’ll Win

/March 12, 2019

The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. American political parties are stuck in a rut. The Democrats’ “Green New Deal” is close to becoming accepted orthodoxy. Republicans have convinced themselves that lowering taxes and increasing spending will eliminate the United States’ nearly $20-trillion debt. Every day brings a new slate […]

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The Saturday Essay: Goods Costlier than Money

/March 9, 2019

The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. There are two contemporary conversations about feminism. One, simply put, deals with the question of whether or not men and women are essentially the same or have inherent differences between them. The other asks how we are to ensure that men and women […]

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The Case Against D.C. Statehood

/March 6, 2019

The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. In the latest episode of let’s-reshape-institutions-that-make-us-lose, Democrats have turned on the “insufficiently democratic” Senate. The new brand of complaint has now evolved into an argument for District of Columbia statehood. The argument runs like this: D.C. has a population of about 700,000 people. […]

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The Saturday Essay: Princeton’s Concern with Morality

/January 25, 2019

The Hall at Christ Church, Oxford The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. An academic seems no more obtuse and irrelevant than when he questions the very purpose of academia. If he himself is unable to explain why he applies himself to vague and outlandish lines of inquiry, then his […]

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The Carbon Tax: A Conservative Solution

/January 25, 2019

The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. In today’s polarized politics, few liberals would expect a Republican to care about the environment. However people often forget that conservatism and conservation have a tightly woven past. The Environmental Protection Agency owes a debt of thanks to President Nixon; the Climate Stewardship […]

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Why Federalism Still Matters

/January 25, 2019

The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. We live in a country divided. And contrary to what pundits may say, this is the way it is meant to be. The United States is a large country with a geographically-dispersed population containing a diverse set of religious and ethnic groups. To […]

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Creating Disbelief: A Report on the Creation Museum

/January 25, 2019

The Creation Museum’s Allosaurus exhibit. Courtesy of creationmuseum.org The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Along the highways of southwestern Ohio, backyard crosses and church steeples blaze brightly at night. In the heartland of America — where nearly three-quarters of adults are Christians — religion is a public matter, influencing […]

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Negotiating on the Side of Life in the Abortion Debate

/January 25, 2019

Princeton Pro-Life at the March for Life. Courtesy of prolife.princeton.edu The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Earlier this year, the American Whig-Cliosophic Society hosted a caucus at the Whig Senate Chamber to craft bipartisan abortion rights policies. In more ways than one, the event proved timely. Increasing concerns, especially […]

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A Lesson Learned at Princeton

/January 25, 2019

The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. The Senate Chamber of Whig Hall, where debates are held. Courtesy of whigclio.princeton.edu After my first year at Princeton, I was lucky enough to be invited to attend Reunions to help Whig-Clio put on the James Madison Award Ceremony—that year being given to […]

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He’s Always Watching You

/January 22, 2018

The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Indoctrination and slow engravement in the memory of the people through propaganda, where no other past is remembered or imagined, was the goal of the Bolivarian Revolution. In the evening of December 6, 1998, the electoral ballot was released where Hugo Chávez won […]

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