Soros has dedicated his life to fomenting American anarchism, undermining Israel's territorial integrity, and destabilizing Western nation-states more generally.
My speech at @NatConTalk 3, "Common Good Originalism After Dobbs," is now available as an adapted essay at @theammind.
Check it out.👇🏼 americanmind.org/features/flori…@NatConTalk@theammind The question, in the aftermath of the unprecedented victories of the most recent U.S. Supreme Court term, is whether the recent conservative jurisprudential fights remain relevant.
My syndicated column for the week. newsweek.com/welcome-two-ti…
A two-tiered America is an "America" in name only. There is nothing good down that rabbit hole. Anyone who has ever thumbed through a history book can tell you how that story ends: not well, and sometimes with great bloodshed.
Chaser: newsweek.com/jewish-progres…
I’m calling for a complete and total shutdown of Reform “rabbis” purporting to speak on behalf of Halacha—let alone such a thorny issue as Halacha and abortion—until we can figure out what the hell is going on.
May 3, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
“But muh norms!” huffed the disaffected leftist SCOTUS clerk as he…*checks notes*…leaked the biggest story in modern SCOTUS history. politico.com/news/2022/05/0…
Sotomayor’s chambers is definitely the best guess, but impossible to rule out the possibility of a Kagan or Breyer clerk.
A key point that I'm not sure many American news consumers fully realize: There is a real, palpable disagreement about what exactly to do about Russia/Ukraine even among some of the U.S.'s closest Central/Eastern European allies.
The key example here is Poland and Hungary.
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I have been to both Poland and Hungary over the past year. I have met both prime ministers. And I was just at NatCon Brussels with some Poles and Hungarians.
The conservative Polish and Hungarian governments are taking quite different approaches to the conflict in Ukraine.
Feb 27, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Some thoughts on Russia/Ukraine—a short 🧵:
First, it is true that the media's portrayal of a stark dichotomy between Russian imperialism and "liberal Western democracy" is overwrought. Ukraine is indeed a corrupt and oligarchic state itself.
Hunter Biden and Burisma, anyone?
Second, it is nonetheless equally true that Putin is an ex-KGB thug who (obviously!) who still harbors a vestigial hatred of America from his Cold War days. It is also true that Zelensky has been admirably courageous—his "ammunition, not a ride" line is the stuff of legends.
Feb 25, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
In his very fine op-ed, @charliekirk11 actually channeled the intellectual legacy of those, such as Hadley Arkes, who are (properly) skeptical of the strongest-possible view of "religious liberty," preferring instead a more morally grounded defense of substantive *religion*.
@charliekirk11 There is a slight conflation here between free speech and free exercise lingering in the background, but SCOTUS itself continues to blur the lines between these distinct doctrinal areas—see, e.g., the Masterpiece Cakeshop case.
"If the crème de la crème of the conservative legal movement are 'lousy originalists,' who exactly can use the method properly, and who exactly should be sitting on the bench?” – @Vermeullarmineiusetiustitium.com/gnostic-consti…@Vermeullarmine This is exactly right, and it is why the Bostock case was such a watershed moment, delivered to us as it was by former John Finnis mentee Neil Gorsuch (as Adrian also alludes to in this post).
We are sick and tired of the “no true Scotsman” theory of originalist judging.
Nov 9, 2021 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
A few quick thoughts about the Biden administration's recent legal argument in the Fifth Circuit (link below), in defense of the OSHA vaccine mandate.
In short, it's...unconvincing. Time for a thread. 🧵 politico.com/f/?id=0000017d…
Statutorily, OSHA can issue an "emergency temporary standard" if it determines that "employees are exposed to grave danger from exposure to substances or agents determined to be toxic or physically harmful."
The key words here are "employees" (i.e., plural) and "grave danger."
Aug 22, 2021 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
I finally finished @jackbutler4815's interminable slog of an essay purporting to take aim at me on @SohrabAhmari on foreign policy.
It is candidly not worth responding to in full, but here are a few quick thoughts. nationalreview.com/2021/08/reflex…
First, on a personal note, I'd like to thank @NRO (some employees of whom I certainly consider friends) for apparently living rent-free in their heads this week. There was also @baseballcrank's fusillade against common good originalism. nationalreview.com/2021/08/explai…
Aug 20, 2021 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
It's been a busy week. Here's a little recap.
1. On Tuesday, we released a really fun episode of @NewsweekOpinion's "The Debate" podcast: "Vaccine Mandates: Public Necessity or Government Tyranny?" art19.com/shows/the-deba…2. On Tuesday night, I wrote my first piece on the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle, for @nypost, focusing on the great-power competition angle: "China outflanking US in the wake of Biden’s Afghan debacle." nypost.com/2021/08/17/chi…
Aug 19, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
I appreciate @baseballcrank's continued engagement with common good originalism. I won't write another new essay defending CGO (I recently did something similar in response to @JohnGGrove1: thepublicdiscourse.com/2021/07/76917/), so here is just a quick thread. nationalreview.com/2021/08/explai…
Most of this essay is fair, but there are some obvious misreadings. For example, I'm faulted for taking a hatchet to Founding-era federalism (e.g., Madison in Federalist No. 45), but my underlying article expressly raises possibility that Bill of Rights "incorporation" was wrong.
Aug 18, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"China outflanking US in the wake of Biden’s Afghan debacle.”
My piece in tomorrow’s @nypost. nypost.com/2021/08/17/chi…@nypost Great-power competition is back—just when America happens to be an overstretched, and now-humiliated, empire.
Xi Jinping and his CCP henchmen saw an opportunity to add salt to the wounds of the reeling American tiger—and they acted upon it.
Thanks so much to my friend @JennaEllisEsq for having me on @RealAmVoice tonight to discuss conservatism versus libertarianism and what I mean when I propose a jurisprudence of "common good originalism."
I've been baffled by a lot of @DavidAFrench's writings on efforts to combat critical race theory, but perhaps never more so than here. frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/the-conserva…
It has *long* been conservative orthodoxy that states possess near-plenary power over their curricula. Many on the Right have supported abolishing the Department of Education for decades on precisely these grounds. It's a federalism argument right out of Madison in Federalist 45.
Mar 23, 2021 • 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.
“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.
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."
Keep Florida free. @jbronitsky 
