Excited to say that I have signed with @PolityBooks to write an account of freedom grounded in ethical and social bonds. Ranging from the demands of the good to human dignity in the digital age, this book addresses current political disruption & recasts debates about liberalism.

This is clever. (And quick! Too many online quizzes go on for way too long.)

An incredible read 👇👇👇

Over at @NRO, @baseballcrank always gets the cool assignments: He sits down with Justice Alito for a lengthy discussion about his new book. nationalreview.com/2026/10/j…

You don't want to miss @Louise_m_perry's column at @WSJFreeEx today. Or @AMBS_Kernan ⚾️. Or @BecketAdams 🎬. Or @DusenburyDavid 👨‍🎓. Or @jackbutler4815 🗳️.

What an icon. One of the last golden era stars we had. Rest in peace

Exclusive: Sens. Ruben Gallego (D-Arizona) and Jim Banks (R-Indiana) sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sept. 29 urging the State Department to “designate a U.S. head of delegation” for the World Radiocommunication Conference 2027, known as WRC-27, in Shanghai. Washington Post Intelligence obtained the letter. “China is hosting the very conference where the rules for 6G get written, and will use that home-field advantage to push standards favoring Huawei,” Gallego told me. “The U.S. needs a lead negotiator in that room now, not after the rules are locked in.” The senators argue that hosting could give China more opportunities to shape the agenda, build support for its preferred positions, and influence negotiations around spectrum and technology standards. They also contend that Beijing could use that leverage to advance the interests of Chinese companies such as Huawei. “A strong U.S. delegation, coordinating its position well in advance alongside like-minded allies and partners, is the best defense against the CCP’s authoritarian agenda,” they wrote. The senators credited the administration with progress on “the substance of U.S. preparations.” Some U.S. proposals have already gone to the Inter‑American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL), the Organization of American States’ telecommunications commission, the letter stated. The rest are due at its meeting in Bogotá beginning Nov. 30. They asked the administration to name a head of delegation before that meeting. They are also asking Rubio to give the Senate more details on the administration’s strategy and positions going into WRC-27. “Countries around the world are choosing between trusted technology and Chinese surveillance, and Huawei is making door-to-door sales pitches,” Gallego told me. “If the United States doesn’t work with its allies to shape 6G standards now, China will close the deal and bring more countries under their influence. That will pose national security implications for at least a decade, maybe longer.”

A new piece with @aaronsibarium on how the woke culture wars led Trump II to be remarkably different from Trump I. compactmag.com/article/how-w…

As you might imagine, this was a point of discussion in 2022 and MM dismissed out of hand the idea of a two-year blockade.

Publication Day! "The Spirit of the British Constitution: Parliamentary Reform from the Civil War to the Great Reform Act" (@PrincetonUPress) has now been released in the US. The idea for the book started with an article I drafted on the Tories and the Septennial Act in 2016 (published in HPT in 2019), so one could say that it has been a decade in the making. But I completed this book as a proud faculty member of @ufhamilton since 2023. I would like to thank all my friends and colleagues at Hamilton, and around the world. press.princeton.edu/books/ha…