Nothing good, that’s for sure. The United States is a constitutional republic that everyone in the three branches of government swears an oath to uphold. And, for better or worse, it’s the Supreme Court’s job to decide what laws are consistent with that Constitution. READ MORE »

Bending before the Storm The U.S. Supreme Court in Economic Crisis, 1935-1937 The Independent Review, Summer 2004

Sensing his time is limited, Venezuela’s President Maduro has turned to a Soviet-style playbook of violent repression as his strategy for remaining in office. In the eyes of the New York Times, though, Venezuela’s problems come, not from this Marxist dictator but the capitalism he never implemented? READ MORE »

Latin American Populism in the Twenty-First Century The Independent Review, Fall 2019

Worried about the role cell-phone addiction plays in rewiring the minds and habits of your children and young adults? You should be. But, thankfully, Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation, has answers. READ MORE »

BOOK REVIEW: Hollowed Out A Warning about America’s Next Generation The Independent Review, Summer 2022

Sanctions have become very fashionable in the United States, which currently imposes them on over 15,000 individuals and entities, three times more than anyone else, in 20 countries with 2.5 billion people—31% of all humans, in other words, on the planet. But sanctions don’t work—ever. So why do we continue imposing them? READ MORE »

Economic and Political Implications of Disrupting Russian Energy Flow By Scott Semet