11 Feb

Using the metrics that are supposed to matter most in politics, we show--decisively and scientifically--why every state should be making it easier for its citizens to exercise our founding freedom, and do so on the one person, one vote principle, which serves as prelude/first volley--take your pick, depending on how martial you're feeling--to introduce three increasingly radically originalist pathways to get us back where we belong...

20:09 / Latest News / Like A Prayer / Revivalist History
06 Jan

Like most imbalances in our own bodies, violations of the “one person, one vote” bedrock of democracy are its silent killer, maladies that make the Founders and their invention look suddenly old and frail. We traipse back through history to see how and where we went astray, identify the first step back, Republican-style, and then a second step (or a bit of a drive) we can all take together--with more to come...

04:08 / Latest News / Like A Prayer
06 Dec

In the previous post, we uncovered the originalist origins of the most fundamental element of our democracy, the right to vote, and paths to its restoration the founders would unequivocally support. All too often, those paths, and the right to govern votes are supposed to convey to our elected officials, have been sabotaged in the name of the Constitution by our least democratic branch, the judiciary. The reality: nothing the Court has done is supported by the actual words of the Constitution nor the vision of its creators, the proof of which is well-illustrated by both reams of clear evidence (including the English language) and the simple originalist reforms that could be deployed to end the Court's reign of error without requiring Constitutional amendment to do so...

00:37 / Latest News / Like A Prayer
28 Oct

The enemies of American democracy have been gaslighting us for decades with a doctrine they call "originalism" that supposedly justifies every anti-democratic "feature" of our current system as "the wisdom of the founders." The truth, as we'll show in our next four posts, is that real originalism requires rejection of every one of these authoritarian accretions--and the adoption of radical democracy fundamentalist programs to rid us of authoritarianism once and for all....

01:28 / Latest News / Like A Prayer
25 Sep

Not everyone really has "a cross to bear;" a greater, more mindful understanding and appreciation of the origin, purpose, and meaning--here on earth--of the primary symbol of our predominant faith, as well as its successors in our history and modern life, could help catalyze a spiritual revival we're badly in need off...

22:09 / Latest News / Like A Prayer
13 May

Inspired by parallels between recent Ukrainian history and our own origins, we call on Dems, Independents, and Never-Trumpers to champion what we call and describe as "democracy fundamentalism," arguing that only in this way can the founders' vision--and Ukraine's reincarnation of it--be realized and preserved...

03:38 / 21st Century Citizenship / Like A Prayer
24 Sep

When a nation seems to have lost its way as badly as ours has, even its most basic, most taken for granted elements should be open to question and re-examination, especially when, after the last four years in particular, we badly need to remake our collective image, both here and abroad...

01:25 / Call Of The Wild / Like A Prayer
19 Sep

Nationalism has gotten a bad name over the last century, and rightfully so, but a nationalism that’s actually based on our values could help usher in a new American century, to the benefit of the world. Parts 1 & 2, complete...

05:14 / Art Of The Deal / Like A Prayer
17 Sep

How immigration represents a microcosm of the larger values that must drive what we're calling Americanism, and why Americanism in America is not only good for the nation, but for the world.  Part 2 of a two part series...

05:03 / Art Of The Deal / Like A Prayer
24 Aug

Nationalism has gotten a bad name over the last century, and rightfully so, but a nationalism that’s actually based on our values could help usher in a new American century...

01:34 / Art Of The Deal / Like A Prayer