Sidney M. Milkis will deliver the December 2010 Bradley Lecture at AEI.

Liberals often speak in seemingly harmless cliches that they hope will penetrate our mental defenses. Here are some of the most egregious examples.

The entire Republican presidential candidate field has shared one common defect from the start; none of them talk with any serious depth about what used to be close to the center of many presidential campaigns in times of tumult: how we should interpret the Constitution.

Unless Congress acts, this summer the Pentagon will begin making across-the-board cuts in defense programs — cuts that will eventually be so deep that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has said they will end the United States’s status as a global superpower. Yet there seems to be...

Who's against the Constitution? At times, no subject seems to stew the bowels of liberals more than the idea that we should--or even can--be loyal to it.

Central to the genius of the Constitution's design are the mechanisms to change it, and while the Amendment process is often arduous, the American people can do a better job of tinkering with the Constitution than Supreme Court justices.