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23 Mar, 4 tweets, 3 min read
"The Peace Process That Never Was.”

My latest long-form essay and @tabletmag debut is a look back at the history of the Israeli-Palestinian “peace process”—and how the Trump and Biden administrations fit into it. tabletmag.com/sections/israe…
@tabletmag For decades, Washington’s bipartisan "peace process" professional class pushed the same tired tactics to achieve Middle East peace. They failed. Trump changed the game. Biden’s legacy will partially depend on not messing it up.

My @tabletmag debut. tabletmag.com/sections/israe…
@tabletmag Decades-long Palestinian intransigence makes a lot more sense when you consider what Arafat said in 1974: “We shall never stop until we can go back home and Israel is destroyed. The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel.”

My @tabletmag debut essay. tabletmag.com/sections/israe…
@tabletmag "There is no American interest in subjecting Israel to public flogging and bribery, or dangling the sword of Damocles over Israeli military aid. America’s interest, rather, is better fortified with a strong Israel, one that knows America has its back.” tabletmag.com/sections/israe…

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19 Feb
“Toward a New Jurisprudential Consensus: Common Good Originalism.”

Very happy to debut at @PublicDiscourse! thepublicdiscourse.com/2021/02/74146/
At @theammind last year, I outlined a jurisprudence I call “common good originalism”: Hamiltonian, prudential, Preamble-inspired, and inherently oriented to the common good.

At @PublicDiscourse today, I argue this should be the New Right’s jurisprudence. thepublicdiscourse.com/2021/02/74146/
Common good originalism recognizes that no extant strand of originalism is substantively, earnestly, and truly conservative. Common good originalism, unlike positivism, fills the void and should be our conservative jurisprudential standard-bearer. thepublicdiscourse.com/2021/02/74146/
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4 Jan
My friend @JRozansky has a spectacular essay in the new @NationalAffairs on intra-conservative debates over precedent and stare decisis, and what we can learn on the subject from Edmund Burke himself. nationalaffairs.com/publications/d…
@JRozansky @NationalAffairs "The mistake made by Chief Justice Roberts, and echoed throughout the legal academy, is to see Burkean jurisprudence as a kind of humble and dutiful application of a strict...stare decisis. Yet Burke understood judicial precedents not as lawmaking...but as evidence of the law."
"In contrast to the modern approach...Burke believed a precedent should be followed only if it can prove itself to be good evidence of the law. Burke is therefore even less friendly to precedent as such than is Justice Thomas."
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28 Oct 20
Apropos of today's Senate hearing, a quick thread on Big Tech, conservatism, and the GOP, with links to some of my recent writings on the intersection thereof.
Conservatism, properly understood, values *prudence*. "Humility comes...from a willingness to reassess a moment in history and rethink the proper means to meet the timeless ends of politics—justice, human flourishing, individual liberty and the good life." amgreatness.com/2020/08/27/how…
In the Anglo-American conservative tradition, then, "legal and economic norms must be construed as instrumentalities serving the superlative substantive goals of politics qua politics: justice, human flourishing, and the common good." americancompass.org/the-commons/co…
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4 Sep 20
"Come, hear from someone who the whole world knows committed murder last weekend."

We live in a deranged world.
How is this man not already behind bars? How???
I’m actually not sure I’ve ever seen anything more disturbing in my adult lifetime.
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3 Sep 20
"The Democrats Hold the Nation Hostage.”

My syndicated column for the week. creators.com/read/josh-hamm…
As @docMJP put it, these are the Democratic Party’s riots.

They own this. They cannot disown this. They have fanned the flames and have consistently refused to unequivocally and forcefully condemn the anarchist/insurrectionist wellspring, Antifa-BLM. creators.com/read/josh-hamm…
@docMJP Worse, with their laughable "this is happening in Trump's America” talking point, the Democrats are taking the nation hostage. They are offering an implied quid pro quo: Vote for us and we will stop the violence. But it will continue if Trump is reelected. creators.com/read/josh-hamm…
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21 Jun 20
I had a busy writing week, so figured I’d do a little end-of-week ICYMI thread.

1. In Tuesday’s @nypost, I had an initial column on Monday’s unfortunate Title VII case at SCOTUS—and what it portends for the future of the “legal conservative movement.” nypost.com/2020/06/15/nei…
2. On Thursday, I joined with @JamesWilsonInst’s Garrett Snedeker to argue, at @Newsweek, how the disappointing week at SCOTUS proves that defying the anti-constitutional fiction of judicial supremacy is more important now than ever before. newsweek.com/we-need-reject…
(Related/shameless plug: If you enjoyed that one, I have a lengthier recent academic article on the exact same subject. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…)
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