There is a habit of treating liberty and democracy as one thing with two names. Hold elections and freedom follows; where freedom is missing, elections are the cure. The last thirty-five years have been hard on that habit. […]
Armies take territory. Culture takes people, and it keeps them long after armies go home. […]
Culture is what people do when no one is telling them what to do. Law can be written in an afternoon and repealed in another. Culture takes generations to grow and generations to lose, and it decides, long before any […]
[Splitting the Atom of Sovereignty](/posts/splitting-the-atom-of-sovereignty) described the American design as three layers of political authority, all tracing back to one root: the people themselves. [We the People](/posts/we-the-people) then asked what that root actually is — who counts as "We," and […]
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