J. Eric Wise

Jun 10, 2024 | claremontreviewofbooks.com | J. Eric Wise |Jesse Merriam |William Voegeli |Wilfred M. McClay

I came up for air after a recent corporate board fight—a governance wrangle over the removal of certain company directors—and picked up a copy of For Profit: A History of Corporations by William Magnuson. The book examines the purposes of corporations and what they did or do, from Rome to the present day.

Mar 12, 2024 | chroniclesmagazine.org | J. Eric Wise

During last week’s “fiery” State of the Union speech, a campaign speech that quite clearly targeted the president’s “predecessor,” Joe Biden barked “History is watching!” The use of this platitude, reminiscent of the repeated theme of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg’s eyeball adorned billboard in The Great Gatsby, has the value of being partly right. Someone is watching, and what He sees isn’t good. Americans have lost their way, confusing ordinary periodic electoral politics with the regime itself.

Nov 14, 2023 | chroniclesmagazine.org | J. Eric Wise

It’s 1620. A cold November wind whistles through the rigging of a Dutch fluyt anchored in Massachusetts Bay. Below deck religious separatists, merchant adventurers, and soldiers of fortune are hard at work … lawyering. Having set sail in the Mayflower for a new Promised Land over a month earlier, they have arrived too late in the year to make camp on shore so they have chosen the shelter of this ark for the winter.

Oct 17, 2023 | conservativereview.com | J. Eric Wise

Oct 17, 2023 | theblaze.com | J. Eric Wise

California Governor Gavin Newsom recently proposed a gun control amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which would raise the federal minimum age to purchase a firearm from 18 to 21, mandate “universal background checks,” institute waiting periods for gun purchases, and ban “assault weapons.” To implement this amendment, California has called for a meeting of a convention of states.