Do You Believe Your Own Eyes

Do You Believe Your Own Eyes

A Modest Proposal for Ignoring Them It is a marvel of modern governance that the most dangerous thing an American can do is hold a phone the wrong way. In Minneapolis, we have learned that filming federal agents, assisting a fallen stranger, and asking “Are you okay?”...
Remembering Liberty While Misplacing It

Remembering Liberty While Misplacing It

We now live in a nation where liberty is endlessly invoked, rarely practiced, and ceremonially buried with honors when it becomes inconvenient. We are told, with admirable regularity, that certain truths are self-evident. This is fortunate, because if they required...
The Committee on Deck Paint While the Ship Goes Down

The Committee on Deck Paint While the Ship Goes Down

The boat is taking on water. Fast. This, we are assured, is just politics. The boat is taking on water. Fast. This much is evident to anyone with eyes, ankles, or a functioning relationship with gravity. The lower decks are already knee-deep, the engines are coughing...
A Constitutional Federal Republic

A Constitutional Federal Republic

This is not satire . . . The United States is accurately described as a constitutional federal republic, meaning it’s a system where citizens elect representatives to make laws, but these representatives and the government itself are bound by a supreme...
A Brief Account of Incentives, Illusions, and Other Modern Virtues

A Brief Account of Incentives, Illusions, and Other Modern Virtues

The ICE Machine Will Not Stop Without A Reduction of Rewards Those perplexed by the tireless forward motion of ICE—despite outrage, funerals, and the sort of historical comparisons that usually prompt solemn museum exhibits—have misdiagnosed the problem. The obstacle...
Many Harsh Scenes & A Recalibration of Appearances

Many Harsh Scenes & A Recalibration of Appearances

Lights…Camera…Action! It has recently come to light that the President’s team, after a nervous glance at private polling, has discovered an alarming problem with its immigration policy. The problem readers will be relieved to learn is not violence,...