Bending an AP Reporter’s Frame on Nullification
Yesterday, I talked to an AP reporter about a Texas bill that would set the stage to block some federal actions, and I bent her “frame” in the process. Reporters write their stories within certain frames. In journalistic terms, a frame is made up of...
America’s Continued Posturing for War through NATO
On March 28, 2017, the United States Senate voted to give the president the power to bring Montenegro into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The process reveals the extent to which Congress has abandoned its war power authority to the executive branch....
John Locke’s Appeal to Heaven: Its Continuing Relevance
In his Second Treatise of Civil Government, eminent political philosopher John Locke argued that when all other political and individual methods of resisting tyranny are exhausted, only an “appeal to heaven” remains. In Chapter 14 of the famous work, Locke...