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Dec 9, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Nathan J. Beacom |Yuval Levin |Michael P. Zuckert |Jay Cost
Known as one of the most prescient observers of American democracy, Alexis de Tocqueville was also keenly interested in the country’s potential devolution into tyranny.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Kevin Williamson |Michael P. Zuckert |Daniel N. Gullotta |Mary Trimble
Published November 11, 2024 “When the three natural orders in society, the high, the middle, and the low, are all represented in the government, and constitutionally placed to watch each other, and restrain each other mutually by the laws, it is then only, that an emulation takes place for the public good, and divisions turn to the advantage of the nation.” John Adams Of course we shouldn’t trust the people. That’s one of the basic American ideas.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Nick Catoggio |Michael Reneau |Bonnie Kristian |Michael P. Zuckert
“We ran the best campaign we could, considering Joe Biden was president,” an aide for the losing candidate told Politico after Tuesday’s returns were in. “Joe Biden is the singular reason Kamala Harris and Democrats lost tonight.”“He shouldn’t have run,” former Harry Reid aide Jim Manley complained of the president. “This is no time to pull punches or be concerned about anyone’s feelings.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Nick Catoggio |Peter Gattuso |Alex Demas |Michael P. Zuckert
Election Day is finally here. Join us Tuesday for a special, three-hour election night livestream and let The Dispatch be your guide through all the chaos that is sure to come. Usually, Dispatch Live is exclusively for Dispatch members—but we’re making this special episode available to all our readers, so feel free to invite your friends and family!We’ve put together a stacked lineup for the night—including Megan McArdle, Stephanie Slade, David Frum, and Sharon McMahon.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Peter Gattuso |Michael P. Zuckert |Luis Parrales |Mary Trimble
Yes, but state officials have said the passwords alone wouldn’t have allowed access into the state voting systems. Published November 4, 2024 Internet users are questioning the integrity of Colorado’s elections in 2024 because sensitive voting system passwords were mistakenly made available on the Colorado Department of State’s website.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Kevin Williamson |Michael P. Zuckert |Luis Parrales |Mary Trimble
Whatever happens on Election Day, the abortion fight will continue. Published November 4, 2024 The presidential election tomorrow will not resolve very much in American politics. It may not even resolve the question of who the next president is going to be, at least for a while. Who knows? One thing we can be sure is not going to get sorted out in short order: our anguished, ongoing national fight over abortion.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
macon.com | Michael P. Zuckert
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Michael P. Zuckert |Seth Masket |Melissa S. Kearney |Jay Cost
The Monday Essay What Abraham Lincoln can teach us in acrimonious times. Published November 4, 2024 With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Jamie Weinstein |Michael P. Zuckert |Kevin Williamson |Luis Parrales
On Kamala Harris’ Josh Shapiro mistake. Published November 4, 2024 Charlie Dent, former GOP representative and senior policy adviser at DLA Piper, joins Jamie to discuss how Harris could win Pennsylvania and what motivates voters in swing states. The Agenda:—Harris’ chances in collar counties—As Northhampton county goes—Swing states, post-Dobbs—The Madison Square Garden rally—When will we get Pennsylvania results? —Trump’s illiberalism—January 6—Moderating on abortion
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Steven Smith |Michael P. Zuckert |Rachel Lu |Samuel Gregg
No review—even a longish review such as Law and Liberty allows—can do justice to this book, The Disintegrating Conscience and the Decline of Modernity. It is the most recent in a distinguished line of writings by Steven D. Smith, all focusing on issues of religion and the law. But this is no survey of legal doctrine on the First Amendment’s religion clauses. It is a story in three substantive chapters of three thinkers and their grappling with the question of conscience.
