The 2016 Election and the Cult of the Presidency
In the waning days of the Bush administration, the Cato Institute published The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power, by Gene Healy, which revealed how the demands we place on the presidency have turned it into a constitutional monstrosity. With most polls today indicating that Hillary Clinton will be elected as the next president, will centrists and liberals manage to keep in mind just how close we came to handing unchecked power to a figure like Donald Trump? If, as Healy notes, the next president can turn out to be a tyrant, then shouldn’t “tyrant-proofing the presidency” be our most pressing political task?
- The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power, by Gene Healy
- “Donald Trump and the Gift of Fear,” by Gene Healy
What the Candidates Should Be Saying about Trade and the Economy
To foster future growth, the U.S. must preserve the freedom of individuals to engage in commerce in this country and around the world.
How the U.S. Military Can Save $1 Trillion
Cut the U.S. military’s size, but retain its technical edge.
Donald Trump and the Gift of Fear
If the next president can turn out to be a tyrant, then “tyrant-proofing the presidency” is our most pressing political task.
RIP Restraint? Foreign-Policy Insiders’ Electoral Hopes
Paris, an Exercise in Climate Rainmaking
Filling the Gaps
Bonds Are Taxes
We Might Soon Have 9 States Where Pot Is Simultaneously Legal and Illegal. That’s a Problem.
The Agony of ObamaCare’s Collapse Has Just Begun
Listen closely. That’s the sound of a health care plan dying.