What Antifa Gets Right, and Wrong

Antifa groups are not centrally organized and do not have established doctrines.  There are, however, common themes and practices that warrant some praise and some condemnation.

The Right to Drown Out Speakers

If you don’t want to risk being drowned out by opponents, don’t hold a rally on the Boston Commons.

David Hume on Emoluments

The top-five-all-time-philosopher David Hume did not actually interpret the Emolument Clauses of the United States Constitution, which will not surprise you when you recall that he died two months after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Hume did, however, leave us a little evidence of the usage of “emoluments”  from one of the eighteenth century’s most literate and astute pens: