If you disagree with the war in Iran, and you’ve been labeled ‘conservative’ or ‘Republican,’ you’re a panican. It’s an insult, if we’re blunt. Calling somebody a ‘panican’ is never approbative, not the way ‘liberal’ or ‘conservative’ or progressive’ might
It’s just next door. AI is the big new thing, and, alongside drones, every army is trying to figure out how to use AI. The American military is drooling at the possibilities (which, mind you, says relatively little about the
I’ve been watching the wrong people. If you know where I got this problem, you too have been watching the Wrong People- i.e. Tucker Carlson. Now, Carlson’s views are a mixed bag, in my limited experience, bits of a good
‘Ignorance of the law is no excuse.’ So say the legal textbooks, the judge’s rulings, and all the cavalcade of legal orthodoxy. Yet on the face of it, this seems unjust. How can I be accountable to a law I
A people has a right to retain its land. Private property is an important part of any just and healthy society. Private property should not be vulnerable to eminent domain (i.e. the government going ‘Mine now’, al a Naboth’s vineyard)
This is part of a mixed series between my Substack and this website, complete with a jumbled posting order. Go here for the first in the series (I, II). The next article in Islander #5 is an intriguing argument by
God is our legislator. The fundament of American government’s institution is the legislature. Congress makes the law; the executive enforces the law; the judiciary arbitrates the law’s enforcement. In theory, that is the American structure, repeated across fifty one constitutions.
Originally Published Here on Truthwire ‘Artificial intelligence’ (as it is called with much inaccuracy) has burst into public affairs like a 50kt airburst nuke, and we’re still scrambling to figure out where it fits- and where we should never let
Men always want more power. Separation of powers, as Montesquieu laid it out, is a means of playing this cupidity against itself. The American implementation is not so focused on the balancing of classes as Montesquieu was (albeit some element
The First Amendment’s Establishment Clause must compete with another famous definition of the American government’s proper relationship with the church: Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists, wherein he wrote of a “wall of separation between church and state” (Dreisbach).