The Daily Constitutional

A Treaty, Not a Charter: The Civil War Surrender Document That Became an All-Purpose Legal Remedy

Today it’s drafted into every political war, from ballot bans to budget standoffs. Yet the amendment that partisans view as a constitutional cure-all…

Jul 24 • C.H. Hoebeke

Leaving the EU -- The Moral Hazard of Sick Care

In Sweden, a cough gets you a doctor's note to rest. In America, it triggers specialists, diagnostics, and co-pays. But insuring the medical buffet is…

Jul 13 • C.H. Hoebeke

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Leaving the EU - Transportation

When it comes to alternatives to automobile transportation, Americans on both sides of the debate are mistaken. (The second to last, we think, in our…

Jul 2 • C.H. Hoebeke

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May 2026

America the Virtuous

This review of a book still worth reading was written over two decades ago. It is posted today as a part of a project to consolidate works from…

May 11 • C.H. Hoebeke

March 2026

Leaving the EU: Bracing for the airport experience

Our dog is already on the other side of the Atlantic, and wasn't frisked

Mar 25 • C.H. Hoebeke

Leaving the EU: Olive the Dog

Legal immigration for the dog, abandoning ship on the Queen Mary, and a general disdain for border policies.

Mar 16 • C.H. Hoebeke

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Introducing: The Daily Constitutional

After I left the army and resumed my studies in graduate school, I almost bankrupted my family writing a master’s thesis that was rightly rejected by my…

Mar 13 • C.H. Hoebeke

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September 2023

View from a Cemetery

I paused alongside US Highway 1, Having shortened my steps some miles before At Quantico, or Fredericksburg, perhaps, Somewhere, I recall, on the…

Sep 1, 2023 • C.H. Hoebeke

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August 2023

Tone-Deaf, North of 44th Street and West of 5th Ave

NRO's Mark Antonio Wright thinks Oliver Anthony is merely complaining about his paycheck.

Aug 25, 2023 • C.H. Hoebeke

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