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Chicago, IL · ChicagoThe glittering sheen of commerce masks a Janus-faced enigma, that parent of both war and peace, glory and ruin, freedom and despotism, progress and regress, virtue and hedonism. Accused by thinkers throughout the ages of inducing these wide-ranging and contradictory effects, commerce—and its role in conditioning the character of peoples and nations—is the subject of a delightful new Festschrift, Commerce and Character: The Political Economy of t…Read Article
Understanding the Commercial Republic – Gregory M. Collins
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Bureaucracy · United StatesMy thanks to my three interlocutors on the important issue of the Constitution and the unitary executive, Andy Smarick, John Yoo, and Keven Frazier. As I wrote, the theory of the unitary executive asserts that “the president has authority to direct all parts of the executive branch and to fire anyone in the executive branch or, at least, to fire anyone with authority over policy.” There are, of course, any number of alternative institutional arr…Read Article
Presidents, Bureaucracy, and the Real Threat to Democracy – James R. Rogers
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