One takeaway from a tumultuous 2020 is that the Second Amendment and gun rights is a front and center issue once again. Academic philosophers — mostly — have long been suspicious of any asserted right to own firearms. I think the protests of 2020 help reveal what they’ve missed.Start with ...

“My sense is that if Trump wins, Hillary supporters will be sad,” left-wing writer Sally Kohn tweeted the day of the 2016 election. “If Hillary wins, Trump supporters will be angry. Important difference.”Kohn turned out to be wrong about her own side that year, which angrily set about ...

In a recent interview with CNN’s David Axelrod, Sen. Mitt Romney said, “The consequences of what’s happening during this lame duck period … are potentially more severe than the consequences associated with a late transition process.” Romney may have been talking in another context; ...

There is an old saying, the baseball rule: “Never change a winning game, always change a losing one.”COVID is a losing game. Some states, and some nations have done lockdowns and others have not. Some mandate mask wearing, others do not. The rate of infection is rising rapidly regardless of ...

One of the many big surprises in this month’s surprising election was the Democrats’ failure to overturn Republican majorities in state legislatures.Various Democratic committees budgeted $88 million to flip majorities in big states such as Texas, Florida and North Carolina. Total gains: ...

Among the most surprising of the multiple surprising results in this election was California’s rejection of Proposition 16.The ballot measure was supported by the Democratic supermajorities in the state legislature; by long-established corporations and Silicon Valley tech firms; by leaders of ...