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The Case for Working-Class Nationalism
On a warm July afternoon in 1935, four thousand steel and coal workers carrying American flags gathered at a playground in Homestead, Pennsylvania to commemorate the great strike of forty-four years earlier, and to send a message to US Steel, the corporation that had run the town since the 1870s.
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Trump Sets Trap at State of the Union
Wednesday on RealClearPolitics – Joined by Presidential Historian Tevi Troy and RCP Senior Elections Analyst Sean Trende: 00:00 Trump’s Trap for Democrats at…
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One Big Winner, One Giant Loser and One Big Problem
President Trump’s State of the Union set the midterm election agenda with populist messaging on economy and immigration, though the long-term political impact remains uncertain.
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Thoughts on the Supreme Court Oral Argument in the Pung v. Isabella County Takings Case
Illustration: Lex Villena; Oblachko Today the Supreme Court held oral argument in Pung v. Isabella County, an important takings case in which I filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Cato Institute, myself, and a group of prominent takings scholars. Frustratingly, much of the oral argument focused on the wrong issue. This is a […]
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Constitutional Challenge to Texas Law on “Prurient” Drag Shows Sent Back to District Court
From Judge Kurt Engelhardt, joined by Judge Leslie Southwick in today’s Woodlands Pride, Inc. v. Paxton (Judge James Dennis, who had been a member of the original panel and had dissented in part, retired from service since then and thus didn’t participate): A Texas law regulates sexually oriented performances on public property and in the […]
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The ACLU, Long Leery of the Second Amendment, Joins the NRA in Urging SCOTUS To Uphold Pot Users’ Gun Rights
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), despite its name, historically has not been keen on defending the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. After the Supreme Court affirmed that right in the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller, the ACLU continued to maintain that “the Second Amendment protects a collective right rather […]
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Anti-“Queer” Speech Is Constitutionally Protected—but Not Parked in Multiple Spaces
From Judge Waverly Crenshaw (M.D. Tenn.) Monday in Wattenbarger v. City of Crossville (M.D. Tenn.): “Queers stay away from our children. You’re ruining America.” That was one of several messages Wattenbarger displayed on banners affixed to his truck and horse trailer as he drove through a pride festival in Crossville, Tennessee in June 2023. Others […]
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The Unfathomable Depths of Blue-State Fraud
What stands out is a new, aggressive willingness to defend, deny or ignore epidemic levels of fraud for reasons of political economy
