Politics
Is the electoral college racist?
The Boston Globe | Opinion | September 1, 2020 Far from being racist, the Electoral College protects the interests of anyone in the minority — political, geographic, racial, or otherwise. In a political season marred by racial unrest, the claim that the Electoral...
The Woke Mob Comes for a Federal Judge
The National Review | Law & The Courts | July 3, 2020 Until our leaders stand up and speak out against our self-appointed speech police, no one will be safe. Our Founders sought to protect federal judges from the whims of the mob by granting them life tenure, and...
Coronavirus should put an end to the town meeting
The Boston Globe | Op-Ed | May 4, 2020 Here’s hoping it’s consigned forever to the dust heap of history. In a pre-coronavirus world, spring in New England used to mean town meeting. In more than 200 Massachusetts towns, voters gathered publicly to deliberate and...
One of Elizabeth Warren’s Harvard Law Students Explains Why Her Native-American Gambit Matters
The Washington Examiner | October 18, 2018 You have to understand the climate at Harvard at the time. Whoever advised Senator Warren that releasing her DNA results would put to rest the controversy over her claimed Native American ancestry should be fired. Rather than...
Conservatives Should Be Open To A Trial In The Senate
The Hill | Opinion | January 21, 2020 President Trump recently tweeted that allowing a full-blown impeachment trial would lend legitimacy to an unfair and partisan process. Numerous conservative pundits have pushed for outright dismissal or the briefest of...
DeVos restores fairness to campus sexual misconduct cases
The Boston Globe | Op-Ed | January 2, 2020 A survey suggests that attempts to address sexual assault on campus, although well intentioned, have done so at the expense of fairness, and, in many cases, the truth. Last summer, Yale University settled a lawsuit by...
Ranked-choice voting threatens to distort election outcomes
The Boston Globe | Op-Ed | December 12, 2019 Frequently hailed as a way to reduce polarization, ranked-choice voting is, in fact, a dangerously complex process that threatens to distort election outcomes Anyone concerned about voter participation and the integrity of...
The real constitutional crisis
The Boston Globe | Op-Ed | November 7, 2019 Many commentators are breathlessly reporting that America is on the brink of a constitutional crisis. They’re right, but not in the sense that they imagine. Political scientists and law professors define a “constitutional...
Do most voters even know who Bill Weld is?
The Boston Globe | Op-Ed | July 8, 2019 Does Bill Weld really think he can beat Donald Trump? The 73-year-old former Massachusetts governor is currently raising money for his long-shot quest for the Republican presidential nomination. Good luck. Do most voters...
Kamala Harris’s equal pay hoax
The Boston Globe | Op-Ed | May 27, 2019 Last week, Senator Kamala Harris became the latest politician to peddle the wage-gap myth that American women earn only 80 cents for every dollar earned by a man. The California Democrat, who is running for president, has...
A tale of two rollouts: Tone-deaf Joe Biden vs. patriotic Seth Moulton
The Washington Examiner | Opinion | April 29, 2019 I used to think of former Vice President Joe Biden as the Democratic Party’s best hope to beat President Trump in 2020. As the son of a used car salesman, the Scranton, Pa., native has an avuncular style that...
The Washington Examiner | Opinion | April 29, 2019 I used to think of former Vice President Joe Biden as the Democratic Party’s best hope to beat President Trump in 2020. As the son of a used car salesman, the Scranton, Pa., native has an avuncular style that appeals...
Democrats cry ‘wolf’ on collusion and cover-ups
The Boston Globe | Op-Ed | March 26, 2019 The Mueller investigation is over. According to a summary of Mueller’s report from Attorney General William Barr, we now know that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign did not conspire with Russia to influence the 2016...
Ayanna Pressley thinks your 16-year-old should be able to vote. Let that sink in a minute
The Boston Globe | Op-Ed | March 11, 2019 Representative Ayanna Pressley thinks your 16-year-old should be able to vote. Let that sink in a minute. She wants to let your monosyllabic, barely-driving child and her friends help determine the next president of the United...
Pantsuit Nation Cries Foul
The National Review | Elections | February 15, 2019 Apparently, it’s not politically correct to mention likability when discussing female candidates. Pantsuit nation is already crying foul. Fresh off the “Hillary lost because of sexism” tour, many purveyors of female...
“Advocates for ‘change’ are, inevitably, frustrated with our deliberately inefficient government. And so when they do not get their way, they complain that the system is ‘broken.’ But it is not. This is how it is supposed to work. Gridlock prevents the majority from running roughshod over the minority. Gridlock ensures that dissenting voices are heard. Gridlock forces compromise — often painful compromise, but compromise nonetheless”
