Principles of Government

The Deep State Is All Too Real A

By David Bernhardt - May 9, 2023

Principles of Government · September 5, 2023 ·

By David Bernhardt – Grade-school civics teaches that Washington is designed to operate under a system of checks and balances, constrained by the Constitution and empowered by the consent of the governed. In practice, however, power has become concentrated in the executive branch and largely wielded by unaccountable career bureaucrats. The notion of a “deep state” isn’t a conspiratorial talking point but a manifest political reality….The separation of powers is an animating principle of our nation’s founding documents.
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The ‘Hurtful’ Idea of Scientific Merit A

By Jerry A. Coyne and Anna I. Krylov - April 27, 2023

Principles of Government · August 26, 2023 ·

By Jerry A. Coyne and Anna I. Krylov – The crux of our argument is simple: Science that doesn’t prioritize merit doesn’t work, and substituting ideological dogma for quality is a shortcut to disaster. In some ways this new species of Lysenkoism is more pernicious than the old, because it affects all science—chemistry, physics, life sciences, medicine and math—not merely biology and agriculture. The government isn’t the only entity pushing it, either. “Progressive” scientists promote it, too, along with professional societies, funding agencies like the National Institutes of Health and Energy Department, scientific journals and university administrators. When applying for openings as a university scientist today, job candidates may well be evaluated more by their record of supporting “social justice” than by their scientific achievements. Read More

Putin’s War Is America’s Opportunity B

By Walter Russell Mead - May 29, 2023

Principles of Government · August 26, 2023 ·

By Walter Russell Mead – These concerns are real and have their place, but they miss the main point. Vladimir Putin’s ill-judged, ill-planned and ill-prosecuted war has ignited a national awakening in Ukraine. The country emerging from Putin’s War will be a formidable new force in Europe whose interests and outlook place it firmly in alignment with the U.S. Read More

How Public Unions Took Taxpayers Hostage AA

By Fred Siegel - Jan. 25, 2011

Principles of Government · September 12, 2025 ·

By Fred Siegel – But there was another “rights” movement, largely overlooked, that has also had a profound effect on American life. The looming public-pension crisis that threatens to bankrupt city, county and state governments had its origins in those same years when public employees, already protected by civil-service rules, gained the right to bargain collectively. Read More

‘The Gulag Archipelago’: An Epic of True Evil AA

By Gary Saul Morson - May 5, 2023

Principles of Government · September 12, 2025 ·

By Gary Saul Morson – How was such evil possible? … but those who commit the greatest harm think of themselves as good. Before interrogators could torture prisoners they knew were innocent, they had to discover a justification for their actions. Shakespeare’s villains …had no ideology,” nothing to compare with Marxism-Leninism’s “scientific” and infallible explanations of life and ethics. “Ideology—that is what . . . gives the evil-doer the necessary steadfastness and determination . . . the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good . . . in his own and others’ eyes.” Read More

The Deep State Is All Too Real A

The ‘Hurtful’ Idea of Scientific Merit A

Putin’s War Is America’s Opportunity B

How Public Unions Took Taxpayers Hostage AA

‘The Gulag Archipelago’: An Epic of True Evil AA

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