Reading Antigone in the age of coronavirus.

The filibuster may have some costs, but it makes our polity more stable, promotes bipartisan compromise, tamps down polarization, and protects federalism.

The text and Hamilton’s commentary are sufficiently clear: those in office are subject to impeachment and trial; those out of office are not.

A history of French aristocrats before 1789 offers some eerie echoes of our own decadence.

Religious liberty is not a trump card that wins every time, but interference with clergy-penitent privilege will do no good and may produce real harm.

To defend itself morally, liberalism depends on a conception of natural rights, but it also needs natural law.

What information and what warnings should government disclose to the public, and why?

We’re increasingly getting more of the same from Pope Francis.

The idea that education should be an engine of social change has been a hallmark of progressivism for years, so we can’t say we weren’t warned.

The rash of Covid rule-breaking among our leadership class makes me wonder if our leadership class still believe in the democratic standard.