Those who want space to pursue the common good in many of the ways that Vermeule promotes should be attracted to originalism.

Originalism is a form of legal positivism and as such is devoid of moral force, except as a covert method of subverting a dominant left-liberal tradition.

The question is not the existence of tradeoffs, but whether the necessity of making tradeoffs will be honestly acknowledged or dishonestly denied.

There is little doubt that there are many who will want to use the epidemic as a pretext for exerting more power and control over the population.

Large as the debt numbers are, the United States continues to be the preferred destination for the world’s savings.

The most significant developments in the past year suggest a potent originalist future.

In America, officers pursue the common good by maintaining faith with the Constitution’s original meaning. No Dworkinian interpretivism necessary.

We need not grifters or hysterical celebrities, but people dedicated to public concerns who will defend our rights to our private lives.

Our education, licensing, and entitlement policies are driving the young to socialist views which break sharply with America's political tradition.

The French can provide a form of common life in which all, including their fellow Muslim citizens, can recognize themselves.

If some group of senators is willing to orchestrate an insurrection, the worst thing they could do would be to announce themselves as a bipartisan caucus.

We might look to Groundhog Day as an unlikely source of wisdom for thinking about life in lockdown.

Every crisis is clarifying, generative, and destructive. The Coronavirus War will prove no different.

If projections about infection prevalence and necessary hospitalizations that many experts are using are right, the virus will overwhelm US hospitals.