We’re Asking the Wrong Question About Justin Cofer
The real issue isn’t one candidate. It’s the system that produced him. As Knox County Republicans, we are having an […]
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Book Review: Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
Before She Was Notorious: RBG and the Lost Art of Incremental Change Let me begin with a disclosure. I am
Henderson vs. Hawk: Historic Elections Deserve Historic Turnout
In 1920, Tennessee cast the deciding vote that ratified the 19th Amendment and guaranteed women the right to vote. More
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Book Review: Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein
Klein Gets the Diagnosis Right—but Not the Cure ★★★★☆ (4/5) Ezra Klein’s Why We’re Polarized is an important book and
What Would the Tofflers Think of AI?
Forty-five years ago, Alvin and Heidi Toffler helped predict the Information Age. Would they recognize what is happening now? A
Book Review: How Democracies Die
A Strong Diagnosis, But the Wrong Cure: An Important Book That Misses Madison’s Greatest Insight ★★★★☆ (4/5) How Democracies Die
The Three Books Behind More Republic, Less Cowbell
A reader recently asked me a fair question: “What books most influenced More Republic, Less Cowbell?” The answer surprised me
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Knox County: Endorsements, Associations, and the Architecture of a Republic
A recent exchange in local Knox County political circles turned on a simple phrase: “endorsements make for a lazy voter.”
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The Vice President Who Announces His Own Defeat
American democracy contains a few rituals so strange that they almost feel like political theater. One of them unfolds every
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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