The Court Cannot Build a Shipyard
Judicial review of tariff authority is a legitimate constitutional question, but the republic's productive weakness is not a problem any judge can solve.
Commentary
Signed opinion columns from The Republic Standard’s contributors, in the American constitutional tradition.
The Price of Annexation Talk: How Washington Turned a Reliable Ally Into a Negotiating Adversary
When you tell a neighbor he cannot survive without you and then slap him with 50-percent tariffs, you have not gained leverage — you have manufactured a coalition against yourself.
The Sheriff Comes Home
When Washington abandons the consumer protection field, state attorneys general fill the vacuum — and that is not entirely a bad thing.
The Doctor’s Diagnosis Is the Disease
When a physician declares American democracy clinically dead, he is not practicing medicine — he is practicing politics with borrowed authority.
Integrity as a Weapon: The Senate’s New Confirmation Theater
When the opposition's only argument is character, it has run out of arguments about governance.
The Memphis Equation: When a Shooting Becomes a Campaign
Progressive Democrats are converting four violent deaths into a congressional primary weapon, and nobody in the room is asking what the Memphis Safe Task Force was actually doing.