Philip K. Howard, Saving Can-Do: How to Revive the Spirit of America. Garden City, NY: Rodin Books, 2025

David Lewis Schaefer, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, College of Holy Cross It is widely known-or it should be-that economic progress in America, and even our nation’s military security, are seriously hampered by a surfeit of litigation and excessive bureaucratic … Continue reading Philip K. Howard, Saving Can-Do: How to Revive the Spirit of America. Garden City, NY: Rodin Books, 2025

Machiavelli’s Relevance to Israeli Foreign Policy Today

David Lewis Schaefer is Professor Emeritus, Political Science at College of the Holy Cross. Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince (1527) has typically been dismissed as a how-to book on how ambitious would-be tyrants can acquire and hold power. But before succumbing … Continue reading Machiavelli’s Relevance to Israeli Foreign Policy Today

Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, The Tyranny of the Minority. New York: Crown, 2023

David Lewis Schaefer is Professor of Political Science at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. He is author of The Political Philosophy of Montaigne (Cornell University Press, 1990; rpt. 2019) and of Illiberal Justice: John Rawls vs. the … Continue reading Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, The Tyranny of the Minority. New York: Crown, 2023

Is the ”Ellerth-Faragher Test” as Important as Brown v. Board of Education?

Thomas F. Powers is Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science at Carthage College.  He is the author of American Multiculturalism and the Anti-Discrimination Regime: The Challenge to Liberal Pluralism. Brown v. Board of Education famously restored the … Continue reading Is the ”Ellerth-Faragher Test” as Important as Brown v. Board of Education?