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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

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

Party Like It’s 1799

The framers understood political parties to be necessary instruments of republican government.
Both Sides of the Table

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

Of Experts and Angels

A review of Design for Liberty: Private Property, Public Administration, and the Rule of Law, by Richard A. Epstein
A Czar is Born

A Czar is Born

A specter is haunting liberalism?â?ó?óÔÇÜ?¼?óÔé¼?Øthe specter of postmodernism.

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