Jack Fitzhenry

4 weeks ago | heritage.org | Jack Fitzhenry

In 2016, the Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission ruled that the Catholic Charities Bureau is ineligible for an unemployment tax exemption. The state permits exemptions for organizations “operated primarily for religious purposes,” yet the Commission ultimately determined that Catholic Charities serves no “religious purpose” when it ministers to the poor, the elderly, and the infirm.

4 weeks ago | dailysignal.com | Jack Fitzhenry

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case testing the limits of the nondelegation doctrine, an issue that may sound lawyerly, but which is of the utmost importance in ensuring separation among the federal branches and accountability for the important decisions that affect us all. Nondelegation is the principle that one branch of government may not give away its power to another.

1 month ago | heritage.org | Jack Fitzhenry

Literature hews to standards outside of the democratic logic. A canonical work does not attain that status by majority consent. Claims of merit do not require a reader’s consent to be authoritative. And the pursuit of sublimity, literature’s proper object, reveals that men have always been created unequal in their intellectual endowments. Literary excellence is not inherently political, and its claims need not raise a direct challenge to democracy.

1 month ago | readlion.com | Adam Wittenberg |Jack Fitzhenry

The financial party has ended for those who owe student loans but the fallout is just beginning. After a nearly five-year hiatus, borrowers were required to resume loan payments in September, with delinquencies starting to pile up in January. Nationally, outstanding student loans total about $1.6 trillion, spread among more than 35 million borrowers.

2 months ago | dailysignal.com | Jack Fitzhenry

Attorneys general in left-leaning states have been crowding into courtrooms to sue the Trump administration. This spectacle, the growing tangle of hastily issued injunctions preventing the enforcement of presidential executive orders, might lead some to think that they are observing the reverse side of a familiar pattern—one in which the party that lost a national election sends its state-level proxies into federal court to harass the party that won the White House.