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Monday, February 14, 2022

Josh Hammer and originalism's entropy

Constitutional theory is abstruse and nerdy.  The only reason you should care about it is that, if it is badly done, it can turn America into an oppressive tyranny or a failed state.  So it is alarming that the so-called “common good originalism” propounded by Newsweek opinion editor Josh Hammer is being taken seriously by right wing intellectuals. 

I explain in my new column at The Hill, here