federalist papers

5 min read 2022-06-24 19:29:26

Social Media and the Political Theory of Passions

“Combat de la rue de Rohan, le 29 juillet 1830”, huile sur toile (1831). Hippolyte Lecomte (1781-1857). Of all the great political thinkers,

2 min read 2022-03-07 06:38:54

First off, an exciting conclusion to an exciting series: Samuel Moyn of Yale has been giving the Carlyle Lectures at Oxford on the theme of “The

6 min read 2022-02-02 05:00:03

The Abbé Sieyès (1825) “Two horses put before the same carriage, made to pull in opposing directions…” Over recent months, there have been

4 min read 2022-01-16 00:30:00

After the summer's stupid battles over the tyranny of masks and supposed indoctrination of innocent schoolchildren with Marxist books like Beloved,

6 min read 2021-12-10 03:46:37

If you ask a random American on the street when the United States was born, it is almost certain that you will be told July 4, 1776. There is no

3 min read 2021-04-17 03:11:05

On Friday, April 9, President Biden announced that he will be launching a commission to study different aspects of the judiciary, and while I

3 min read 2020-12-24 02:30:59

This blog post is part of AEI’s Best Podcasts of 2020 series. Click here to see other AEI podcast hosts’ favorite episodes of the year. In

18 min read 2020-11-16 05:00:47

The dangers associated with the imperial presidency are compounded by an awareness that, while new and more expansive theories of executive

11 min read 2020-09-21 21:09:59

As unrest still rolls across the country, statues of Confederate leaders are coming down. For example, in June Mississippi retired its previous flag

2 min read 2020-07-02 21:42:13

QUICK — what was the Lycian League? Not many of us know, but Alexander Hamilton and James Madison knew! Yes, the “Lycian Confederation” is

5 min read 2020-05-30 01:30:55

To the People of the State of New York: Having previously exposed the unfailing dangers of Faction, the more pernicious and enticing danger of

6 min read 2020-01-22 00:37:00

Trump's Conviction Should Have Been A Slam Dunk President Trump's defenders excuse his urging Ukraine (plus earlier Russia, and later China) to

8 min read 2020-01-16 22:26:25

The following article is based on William Galston’s remarks during a Providence’s Nationalism Summit at the National Press Club in October 2019.

3 min read 2019-11-15 04:40:04

AURORA–Colorado’s 6th Congressional District first-term Representative Jason Crow sent out what some call a peculiar electronic poll about the

7 min read 2019-08-16 06:15:19

The Constitution as originally drafted excluded certain rights. These rights were were instead later added as amendments to the Constitution in the