George Thomas is Professor of American Political Institutions at Claremont McKenna College and a regular contributor to The Constitutionalist. The last few years have reminded us of the importance of civic virtue. Not so much a robust dedication to public … Continue reading Leadership and Civic Education
Susan McWilliams Barndt is a regular contributor to The Constitutionalist. She is Chair and Professor in the Politics Department at Pomona College. For the health of this republic, we need Republican leaders to believe that theirs can become the majority … Continue reading In Search of a Republican Majority
Greg Weiner is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Assumption University. He is regular contributor for The Constitutionalist. The most dangerous and lingering precedent in the Trump trial may be the one both sides indulged: a legalistic conception … Continue reading Impeachment is About a Public Trust, not a President’s Rights
Aurelian Craiutu is Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author, most recently, of A Virtue for Courageous Minds: Moderation in French Political Thought, 1748-1830 (Princeton University Press, 2012) and Faces of Moderation: The Art of … Continue reading Prudence and the Future of Conservatism
Charles U. Zug is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Williams College. His research focuses on American Politics and Political Theory. On January 13, 2021, the House of Representatives voted to indict president Donald Trump with inciting an … Continue reading Rhetorical Duty and the Constitutional Order
Fred Baumann is Professor of Political Science at Kenyon College. His areas of expertise are humanism, fraternity and political reciprocity. He has taught at Kenyon College since 1980. If all the talk about polarization in American politics needed an exclamation … Continue reading Constitutionalism and Reciprocity
Gary J. Schmitt is a Resident Scholar in Strategic Studies and American Institutions at American Enterprise Institute. Executive orders and Senate filibusters are both tools of governance—traditionally thought of as addendums to the toolbox available to the president and senators … Continue reading Executive Orders & Filibusters: The Constitutional Downsides
Stephen F. Knott is the author of The Lost Soul of the Presidency. Donald Trump was everything critics of a populist presidency, particularly Alexander Hamilton, worried about—a demagogue who displayed “talents for low intrigue” and practiced the “little arts of … Continue reading Demagoguery’s Apologists
Benjamin A. Kleinerman is the Editor of The Constitutionalist and the RW Morrison Chair of Political Science at Baylor University in the Department of Political Science. Although this essay will say much about why impeachment is a necessarily political question, … Continue reading Not Only Criminals Can be Impeached
Greg Weiner is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Assumption University. He is regular contributor for The Constitutionalist. Seeking to dismiss the article of impeachment against former President Trump late last month, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky unwittingly … Continue reading The Trial Is “the Nation’s Work”
