5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (631+ words) The balance was not achieved easily. As the debates on the ratification of the U.S. Constitution raged in the state legislatures, an overwhelming concern was precisely this balance between solidarity and subsidiarity. Many believed that the document produced by the Constitutional…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (140+ words) Paul Osterman’s important new book, Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment, describes how thoroughly that model has eroded. The Rise of the Disposable Worker From Kodak to Walmart Osterman does not deny any of this. Indeed, one of the virtues…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (163+ words) Challenges and Triumphs of Connectivity Smith’s insights into the benefits of connectivity apply not just to waterways but to any mode of transport used for commerce, from roads to rail to airways. And they apply not just to exports but…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (220+ words) However things stand in fact, America did maintain a functioning and admirable pluralistic society for more than two centuries, and in many respects it still does. If we want to revive that society today, we must remember how and why…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (219+ words) From Content to Design: The Changing Landscape of Legal and Theoretical Arguments I would argue that the better question is whether the companies themselves create a harmful and unhealthy social environment for children. In other words, the current modus operandi…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (211+ words) Sadly, my answer is no. Our dating problem has much deeper roots, resting on an impoverished understanding of the person and of human relationships and on a mistaken conception of our freedom in choosing love. This is what single people…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (498+ words) Common sense may be common to us all, but it doesn’t always win the day. Good for the Supreme Court for making sure it does in the recent decision of West Virginia v. B. P. J. West Virginia enacted a…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (170+ words) the Maryland law fits comfortably within our nation’s tradition of firearm regulation. It is but another example of the state regulating excessively dangerous weapons once their incompatibility with a lawful and safe society becomes apparent, while nonetheless preserving avenues for…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1293+ words) Matthew J. Franck is Senior Contributing Editor of Public Discourse. He is also a visiting Lecturer in Politics at Princeton University, Senior Fellow at the Witherspoon Institute, and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Radford University, where he chaired the department…...