Dennis Teti is a political scholar and commentator who contributed essays to The Weekly Standard between 1997 and 2016. His writings for the magazine addressed constitutional and political topics, including the Federal Marriage Amendment and the viability of various policy proposals.
G.K. Chesterton famously remarked, “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried." The same can be said of a more down-to-earth but still-radical idea: The late Jack Kemp's antipoverty proposal for urban enterprise zones was found…
THE MASSACHUSETTS SUPREME COURT has legalized same-sex marriage for the first time in this country. Most suspect the U.S. Supreme Court will throw a blanket of federal constitutional protection around this precedent. Faced with the judicial deconstruction of marriage, angry conservative spokesmen…
The Supreme Court and Congress are on a collision course. Three times in the final week of its term, the high court struck down laws passed by overwhelming congressional majorities, championed by the president, and defended by the Justice Department. This is historically unprecedented. Even during…