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In an important new article, “To Regulate,” Not “To Prohibit”: Limiting the Commerce Power , Barry Friedman and Genvieve Lakier argue t...

Over at the Daily Caller they have produced a Top Ten List of the most badass American political names .  And there, lo and behold, is ...

Do you know John Hughes ?  The excellent City Journal site is currently featuring a wonderful older (but new to me) article on New Yor...

I'm never sure when to celebrate Johann Sebastian Bach's birthday, since he was born on March 21, 1685 ( o.s ) and March 31, 1...

The Epistle of Barnabas was reportedly in the running to be a book of the New Testament.  It's a good thing it lost.  Apart from t...

In the latter part of July 1788, the convention convened in Poughkeepsie to determine whether New York would ratify the United States C...

I failed to mark James Madison's birthday yesterday, but not to worry: over at Millard Fillmore's Bathtub , Ed Darrell noted th...

I posted recently on Lawprof Seth Barrett Tillman's fun article posing Six Puzzles for Professor Akhil Amar . Now I see that a...

Over at Concurring Opinions, Lawprof Gerard Magliocca points out that James Wilson "was probably the only Founder to play golf....

As you may have heard, Emory University President James Wagner wrote a column earlier this year in which he praised the Three-Fifths C...

Over at Millard Fillmore's Bathtub , Ed Darrell has an appreciative post on Millard: Quote of the Moment: Should We Reconsider Milla...

Longtime readers will know I'm a big Millard Fillmore fan and get seriously perturbed when Millard is dissed.  Well, it's happ...

The always enjoyable and educational Seth Barrett Tillman has a short and fun (but very dense!) new paper out on SSRN for those of you ...

After writing Celebrating Thomas Hamer , I decided to check Jonathan H. Earle's fine book Jacksonian Antislavery & the Politics ...

Over at Power Line , Paul Mirengoff has a short but delightful post Celebrating Thomas Hamer , the Ohio Congressman who got Hiram Ulyss...

95 AD marked the fourteenth year of the reign of the Roman emperor Domitian . At 43 years of age (born in 51 AD), he was hardly an old m...

Sallie gives me tongue - twice!

As you may have heard, the United States Circuit Court for the District of Columbia recently used originalist analysis to hold that r...