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Joseph Postell
Joseph Postell is assistant professor of political science at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
Articles by Joseph Postell
Their Democracy
Democracy has become not a form of government in which the people rule directly or indirectly, but a political program committed to egalitarian outcomes.
Party Like It’s 1799
The framers understood political parties to be necessary instruments of republican government.
What’s the Matter with Congress?
Why it’s hard to make Congress great again.
Both Sides of the Table
If our government hopes to avoid public employees benefiting to the detriment of the public interest, citizens and statesmen must comprehend the consequences of public unions’ growing power.
Of Experts and Angels
A review of Design for Liberty: Private Property, Public Administration, and the Rule of Law, by Richard A. Epstein
The Incredible Shrinking Presidency
A review of The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic, by Eric A. Posner
A Czar is Born
A specter is haunting liberalism?â?ó?óÔÇÜ?¼?óÔé¼?Øthe specter of postmodernism.