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A Thought for the “Politically Homeless”
By Dr. Mather I’ve been going back and forth with some calling themselves politically “homeless” and I have a comment about the way this strikes me. They want to come onto the podcast all the time. And many are much more “successful” in worldy terms podcasters. The metaphor of a “home” strikes me as so… Read more »
40th Anniversary Celebration of Richard A. Epstein’s Magisterial “Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain” (Harvard University Press, 1985)
It’s one of the best books in Constitutional Law that I’ve read. We’ll be doing a series of honorary transformative readings from the book this year on TRP podcast to mark the anniversary and to urge listeners to buy the book and to read it, especially advanced undergraduates and law, government, and philosophy graduate students.… Read more »
“The Power to Tax is the Power to Destroy.” Chief Justice John Marshall
In McColluch v. Maryland (1819), Chief Justice John Marshall of the United States Supreme Court, the last of the great Founders, said that “the power to tax is the power to destroy.” He said it nonchalantly, as if it were not anything anyone disagreed about. The issue in that case was whether a state had… Read more »
