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Spying allegations warrant investigation to prevent further coarsening of politics

The Enumerated Powers Act would be a small step toward reviving the practice of constitutionally limited government. Although it would not stop Congress from passing unwise laws, the Act would empowerthose Members who take the Constitution seriously to force theHouse and Senate to at least consider constitutional norms inlawmaking.

Amanda Klug, Publius Fellow 2022

“And what makes it possible to forego providing for even their own defense? Partly, utopian fantasies of peace and partly reliance on the military might of the United States, whose work-obsessed citizens underwrite their more relaxed “lifestyles” – Jean Yarbrough pointed out in a conversation with Lénárd Sándor on the challenges before the unique European and American way of life.

This piece originally appeared on TomDispatch. When Martin Luther King Jr. preached his famous sermon "Beyond Vietnam" at Riverside Church in New York City in April 1967, I don't recall giving his words a second thought. Although at the time I was just up the Hudson River attending West Point, his call for a "radical revolution in values" did not resonate with me. By upbringing and given my status as a soldier-in-the-making, radical revolutions were not my thing. To grasp the profound significance of the "the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism" to which he called hi...