Articles
In-depth analysis and commentary on America's founding principles.
Founding Documents & Philosophy
A Republic, Not a Democracy: What the Founders Built
The founders deliberately chose a republic over a pure democracy — and the distinction is not semantic. Understanding the difference is essential to understanding the American constitutional order.
May 16, 2026
The Electoral College: Founding Design and Modern Controversy
The Electoral College was not an accident or a compromise of convenience — it was a deliberate architectural choice. Understanding why the founders built it illuminates the most contested feature of American presidential elections.
May 16, 2026
Natural Rights and the Declaration of Independence
How Locke's philosophy of natural rights shaped Jefferson's most famous words and the founding of a nation.
April 28, 2026
Constitutional Structure
The Architecture of Limited Government
The framers' deliberate design to constrain federal power through enumerated powers, separation, and checks and balances.
April 15, 2026
Rule of Law: America's Most Radical Idea
From Magna Carta to the Fourteenth Amendment — why no one, not even a president, is above the law.
April 5, 2026
Rights & Liberty
Progressivism & the Founding
Marcuse's 'Repressive Tolerance' and the Attack on Free Speech
Herbert Marcuse's 1965 essay argued that true tolerance requires suppressing conservative speech. Its influence on modern progressivism is profound — and deeply at odds with the First Amendment.
May 10, 2026
Progressivism and the Rise of the Administrative State
How the Progressive Era transformed American governance and what the founders would have made of it.
March 10, 2026
Figures
Justice Thomas and the Colorblind Constitution
Across three decades of redistricting, affirmative action, and voting-rights cases, Justice Thomas has argued that the Equal Protection Clause means what it says: government may not classify citizens by race — ever.
May 16, 2026
Clarence Thomas and the Case for Originalism
Justice Thomas's decades-long commitment to reading the Constitution as its framers understood it — and why it matters today.
March 22, 2026