Neal McCluskey Parents have a right to opt their children out of readings in public schools that violate parents’ religious beliefs. So argued the Supreme Court today in a case that typifies a fundamental problem with public schooling: forcing people with diverse values to fund a single system of government schools inherently leads to either […]

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is done messing around when it comes to his agency officials, and is planning to reassign them to remote areas of the globe, while awaiting court rulings that could allow him to fire even more employees altogether. The Supreme Court case about the efficacy of federal firings could be heard […]

The longing for sovereigns shows no signs of letting up. There’s a world before Trump’s descent down the escalator, and there’s a world after it. The recent “No Kings” protests transmitted the idée fixe of the pre-2015 world. That idea was hostility to personal authority, or personal power—hostility to the notion of sovereignty, to the […]

British politics has a reputation for erudition—debate culture, the prime minister taking questions in the House of Commons, etc.—but back in the summer of 2015 the UK’s most common political term of art was something more primitive: “morons.” That was the label given to Labour Party MPs who enabled the rise of Jeremy Corbyn. “The […]

June 27, 2024—a date which will live in dignity (for everyone except Joe Biden) Getty Images / ChatGPT Exactly one year ago today, President Joe Biden wandered onto a CNN debate stage in Atlanta. Democrats were oozing confidence ahead of the showdown against Donald Trump. They had managed to persuade most mainstream journalists that all […]