SNAP’s persistently high error rate reflects a structural mismatch between the states that run the program and the taxpayers who fund it.

As it stands, the FY27 NDAA will largely preserve a wasteful and broken defense industrial base. But it is important to acknowledge that this does not have to remain the status quo.

This revolution of thought rested on a rich intellectual inheritance that stretched back millennia, drawing from Pericles’ democratic Athens, the Roman Republic transmitted through Cicero, and later Stoic and Christian traditions that grounded law in conscience and a moral order above political power.