The Comey Indictment and Free Speech - In 200-plus years of interpreting the free speech clause of the First Amendment, the courts have narrowed and expanded its scope. The Supreme Court employed a particularly narrow approach during much of the last century, through two world wars and then the Red Scare in the 1950s. Thankfully, in the 1960s, the Warren Court began […]
The Other Side of the Coin: Mildred Lewis Rutherford and the Paradox of Female Power - To fully understand the mechanics of female political power in American history, we must also examine the powerful conservative women who marched in exactly the opposite direction from progressive women reformers. This is an under-explored chapter of women’s history that features staunchly conservative, anti-suffrage Southern women who wielded tremendous political and cultural clout. As architects […]
The Real King Schools the Would-be King - I’ve always been both a small-r republican and an Anglophile, so I looked upon the British monarchy with at least a pinch of smug superiority. The Windsors are revered for nothing more than birth — not talent, nor accomplishments, nor virtue. It’s all a throwback to an earlier stage of human development, when people were not […]
News From Around the South, 4/27 to 5/4 - SOUTH CAROLINA: With location and design selected, SC’s Robert Smalls monument needs funding The monument is expected to cost between $1 million and $2 million for the cost of the sculpture, lights and security cameras COLUMBIA — The Statehouse’s planned monument to Civil War hero Robert Smalls has a location. It has a design. What Smalls’ monument, the […]
The Trump Surveillance State - The Fourth Amendment protects all persons from warrantless government searches and seizures of their persons, houses, papers and effects. It requires that warrants be supported by probable cause of crime and specifically describe the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized. Last week, for the first time in the modern […]
