Hockey Night and the Theater of Parenting
Lisa and I enjoy going to the Knoxville Ice Bears games. Hockey offers a pleasant mixture of athletic skill and […]
The Art of the Colonoscopy
A Maintenance Inspection of the Republic of Me At fifty-six years of age, preventive maintenance no longer feels elective. It
The Rambo Doctrine: From Hollywood Myth to Presidential Statecraft
First Blood The opening scene of First Blood does not begin with a war. The opening scene begins with restraint.
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Any Fool Can Go Viral: Stone-Throwers vs. Builders
Madison, Paine, and the Discipline to Construct a Republic Any fool can tear a house down. Gravity performs most of
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What Marriage Asks of Us
Valentine’s Day approaches as I write these words, and Lisa does not yet know this essay exists. Writing to the
Three Answers to Altruism: Madison, Rand, and Jesus
Three traditions, one problem: how societies cope with imperfect human beings Modern political arguments often collapse into a single moral
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Why Nixon Waited and Gore Went to Court
How Primary Reform Changed the Meaning of Losing Two of the closest presidential elections in American history ended very differently.
How Primaries Unmade the Parties—and Why Demagoguery Filled the Gap
Americans did not set out to weaken political parties. The opposite impulse drove reform. In the late 1960s and early
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Three Republican Actors and One Broken Contract
Rebuilding a Strong Knox County GOP Through Structure, Not Personalities Knox County Republicans often argue about candidates, messaging, or ideology.
The Most Effective Management Manual Ever Written (1944)
In 1944, while American forces were busy storming beaches and breaking codes, the U.S. Office of Strategic Services—the organization that
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