Today I wrote about the politics of statehood and the history of Nevada for the The New Chicagoan: https://thenewchicagoan.com/blog/nevada
Worst. Episode. Ever?
StandardToday at The Federalist, I reviewed Star Trek DS9’s season 1, episode 9, “Move Along Home.” Fans have called it the worst episode ever. Was it? Read and judge for yourselves.
New podcast
StandardThis month, I joined Corey Astill in launching a podcast. The Conservative Minds Podcast is dedicated to examining conservative intellectual history to determine the core values of American conservatism. We look at a different book each week and discuss what the author’s views about conservatism mean in his time and our own, and examine what it means to be a conservative in modern America.
Check out the show’s website and please download the first episode.
Why is it wrong?
StandardWhen we abandon a higher source of morality, how can we tell what’s right or wrong? My latest at The Federalist.
Rizzocrats
StandardEarlier this week at National Review, I reviewed Timothy Lombardo’s new book on Frank Rizzo and blue-collar conservatism.
Casey Dems
StandardI wrote about the rise and fall of Casey Democrats for National Review. Do they still exist? We’ll find out tomorrow.
The Senate works just fine
StandardPeople complain about the Senate, but its actually working just as designed: my latest at The Federalist.
Kavanaugh
StandardTwo book reviews
StandardI’ve got two book reviews up this week:
–The first, at National Review Online, is a review of William Anthony Hay’s Lord Liverpool: A Political Life, in which I take a look at the United Kingdom’s longest-serving Prime Minister and how he affected the development of Anglo-American conservatism.
–The second, at University Bookman, is of Carl Lawrence Paulus’s The Slaveholding Crisis: Fear of Insurrection and the Coming of the Civil War, where I discuss the author’s analysis of the effect of foreign emancipation and slave revolts on the slavery debate in America.
This week in the Courts
StandardI have two articles at The Federalist this week about Supreme Court cases:
- On Tuesday, I wrote about why the sales tax decision in Wayfair was correct and pro-federalism.
- On Wednesday, I wrote about the travel ban case, Trump v. Hawaii, and how it was shocking that it wasn’t 9-0.