Another Trump presidency may be right around the corner. Perhaps his primary economic policy point this campaign has been his favorite word: “tariffs.” According to Alan Rappeport, an economic policy reporter for The New York Times, Trump has considered instituting between 10 and 50 percent tariffs on all imported products, a 60 percent tariff on […]
Democracy
Hannah Arendt on Statesmanship
Amongst the general educated public in America, the eminent political theorist Hannah Arendt is probably best known for her concept of “the banality of evil,” which she discusses in her 1963 book about the trial of the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann. One indicator of just how famous the phrase “banality of evil” became is […]
Marbury v. Madison and the Question of John Marshall’s Judicial Activism
In his 2008 book The Activist: John Marshall, Marbury v Madison, and the Myth of Judicial Review, Lawrence Goldstone argues persuasively that the Chief Justice was intent on using William Marbury’s suit against the Jefferson Administration to claim for the Court the authority, nowhere specified in Article III of the Constitution, to be the ultimate […]
The Bible in Revolutionary America: A Guide to Human Nature and Human Government
April 19 marked the anniversary of the American Revolution – specifically, the Battle of Lexington and Concord. The American Declaration of Independence justifies the rebellion by listing “a long train of abuses and usurpations [revealing] a design to reduce [the colonists] under absolute Despotism.” It explains the nature of these various abuses and usurpations as […]
What the “corrupt bargain” of America’s 1824 election can teach us about 2024
As Americans prepare to head into one of the most contentious presidential election seasons in recent history, experts are looking 200 years into the past to the heated election between John Q. Adams and Andrew Jackson for insight and answers as to what may lie ahead. Several important questions concerning the similarity of the election […]
