Madison’s “Extended Republic” and the Culture Wars

By |2023-03-15T18:04:01-05:00March 15th, 2023|Categories: American Republic, Culture War, Government, James Madison, Politics, Timeless Essays|

Centering our national politics on the culture wars is unhelpful because in the end it simply is not cut out for this. The optimal jurisdictional sphere for resolving many of our cultural battles will be localities, not states. Localities must be empowered boldly to operate and experiment within the immense gray areas that the questions [...]