George Thomas is the Wohlford Professor of American Political Institutions and Director of the Salvatori Center at Claremont McKenna College. Professor Thomas is a regular contributor to The Constitutionalist. A number of states have rushed to limit how race can … Continue reading The American Creed and American History
Benjamin A. Kleinerman is the R.W. Morrison Professor of Political Science at Baylor University. He is the Editor of The Constitutionalist. Illustration by Madeleine Kleinerman, Second Year Student, Emory University Throughout this pandemic, science has often been invoked as a … Continue reading Follow the Science?
Elizabeth Busch is the Laura and Pete Walker Professor in American Studies, Co-Director of the Center for American Studies, and Director of American Studies at Christopher Newport University. The editorial world is abuzz with reactions to President Biden’s nomination of … Continue reading To Protect or Remove Due Process in Title IX Trials: Which is the Greater Injustice?
Charles U. Zug is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Williams College. Recently, commentators have speculated that the Republican Party might fissure along pro- and anti-Trump lines, with a third party emerging as a consequence. In response, even more commentators have … Continue reading A Trumpian Third Party?
Rita Koganzon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. Professor Koganzon is also Associate Director of the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy. In the years prior to the Covid pandemic, a growing number … Continue reading After School Choice? The Eternal Return of the Public School
Robinson Woodward-Burns is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Howard University. The House of Representatives recently passed H.R. 51, a bill to grant statehood to the District of Columbia. The District is subject to congressional oversight … Continue reading Statehood, Partisanship, and the Constitution
Jeffrey K. Tulis is Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a regular contributor to The Constitutionalist. Alexis de Tocqueville chose America for his great study of democracy for two reasons. He thought that the … Continue reading Tocqueville and the Pandemic in America
This essay is a response to Colleen Sheehan’s essay, “Everybody Knows”, which was the third in a series of several essays by different authors on the issue of conspiracies. This series is sponsored by Claremont McKenna’s Salvatori Center for the … Continue reading Against Symmetry
This is the fifth in a series of several essays by different authors on the issue of conspiracies. This series is sponsored by Claremont McKenna’s Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom Greg Weiner is Provost and Vice President for Academic … Continue reading Who Needs Plausibility?
Randal Hendrickson is a political theorist and host of PODOPTICON, a politics, history, and culture podcast. Cornel West and Jeremy Tate made a splash with an op-ed on Howard University’s decision to shutter its classics department. The headline reads “Howard … Continue reading Let’s Not Culture War the Classics
