Timothy Sandefur

1 month ago | thedispatch.com | Jamie Weinstein |Carl Graham |Timothy Sandefur |Grayson Logue

Plus: The former ambassador’s reaction to the Signal saga. Published March 31, 2025 Jamie Weinstein is joined by John Bolton, former ambassador to the United Nations and Donald Trump’s onetime national security adviser, to discuss the Trump administration’s mass deportation program, the “loss of American prestige,” and the Signal saga.

1 month ago | thedispatch.com | Timothy Sandefur |Kevin Williamson |Valerie Pavilonis |Carl Graham

The Monday Essay If ‘America First’ applies to architecture, why don't its acolytes prioritize the country’s greatest builder? Published March 31, 2025 Scroll to the comments section Audio versions are only available to subscribers of The Dispatch. Join Today! to listen to this post. Among the 36 executive orders President Donald Trump signed on his first day in office was one document that stood out as strangely … aesthetic.

Jan 31, 2025 | goldwaterinstitute.org | Timothy Sandefur

Three years ago, the Arizona Supreme Court held that Pinal County leaders broke the law when they adopted a new sales tax on items costing less than $10,000. Representing a group of taxpayers, the Goldwater Institute argued that state law sets strict limits on the kids of taxes counties can impose, and those laws don’t let counties tax only low-price goods, while leaving luxury items untouched. Remarkably enough, the Arizona Department of Revenue agreed.

Jan 22, 2025 | goldwaterinstitute.org | Timothy Sandefur

The right to trial by jury is one of the most cherished of American liberties. In fact, a primary cause of the American Revolution was the decision by British officials to establish a juryless court system known as vice-admiralty to decide tax cases in America.

Dec 17, 2024 | sandefur.typepad.com | Timothy Sandefur

I spoke yesterday with Gad Saad about my book on Frederick Douglass, as well as the problems of wokeness, and various other issues. You can watch our conversation here: A couple notes: first, I got Nikole Hannah-Jones's name wrong; I referred to her as Hannah Nikole-Jones. While I have little respect for Nikole-Jones's work, I did not mean this as an insult, it was just faulty memory.