The Federalist Papers Were Brilliant, but…

Promised protections fail to materialize.

I am traveling this week and will not have time to write new posts each day. However, I do not want to leave you, my loyal subscribers, without content, so I will be digging through older pieces (from another site) for items of evergreen interest.

The following piece is from a few years ago, before my misgivings about democratic systems (including our …