Free Beacon Jay Cost

Jay Cost is a staff writer for the Weekly Standard and the author of A Republic No More: Big Government and the Rise of American Political Corruption.


What Would James Madison Do?

Review: Charles Murray, ‘By the People: Rebuilding Liberty without Permission’

'I Don’t Believe You'

Review: David Axelrod’s 'Believer: My 40 Years in Politics’

The Madisonian Nightmare

Book excerpt: How Interest Group Liberalism Breeds Corruption

Chris Hughes

The Dilemma of Modern Liberalism

Review: The New Republic Anthology, Insurrections of the Mind

San Jose skyline

The Liberal Gilded Age

Review: ‘The New Class Conflict,’ by Joel Kotkin

Crowd gathered at the White House

A Revolting Development

Review of Fred Siegel’s ‘The Revolt Against the Masses’