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The Crown and the Courts: A Review December 11, 2020
In The Crown and the Courts, David C. Flatto traces the development of the idea of judicial independence in Jewish commentaries on the Scriptures – particularly Deuteronomy 17 – from the Second Temple and early rabbinic periods. These periods roughly...
Government by the Unelected October 02, 2020
We live in a democracy, but are we governed by one? The Manhattan Institute’s Jim Copland argues persuasively, in The Unelected, that quite a lot of our governance comes from people we didn’t vote for, and whom we cannot vote out to hold them account...
Accidental Defender of the Constitution October 02, 2020
Decades from now, when historians assess Donald Trump’s presidency with sobriety and dispassion, the ironies are apt to stand out most. Donald Trump is the populist who lost the popular vote, owing his ascendancy to the Electoral College, an institut...
