Watergate was an early engagement in the ongoing war over the power of the administrative state.
Joseph Postell
Did Newt Gingrich derail American politics?
Boehner does his best to provide a corrective to our dysfunctional Congress, but it is clear that he did not understand the challenges of leadership.
Trump’s emergence vividly illustrated the vast distance between the ideas of American conservatism and the politics on the ground.
It is not hard to see that the modern presidency bears no resemblance to the Hamiltonian presidency exemplified by Washington.
Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.
Johnathan O'Neill and Joseph Postell respond to Bruce Frohnen's review of their American Conservatism, 1900-1930.
Let’s not forget, Gingrich’s GOP takeover of the House had an important precursor: the House Democrats’ hard left turn of the mid-1970s.
Willmoore Kendall and George Carey showed that the best way to reconcile majority rule and justice was to produce and sustain a virtuous majority.
Joseph Postell is Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College. His most recent book is Bureaucracy in America: The Administrative State’s Challenge to Constitutional Government.