This week, my column argued that a comprehensive policy agenda—and even more than that, a broader paradigm and analytical lens through which to approach both law and public policy—is beginning to emerge for the Republican Party, focused on parents, children, and the nuclear family unit. Whether it is the fight against fentanyl and the Mexican drug cartels that poison American communities with it, the fight against corporate wokeism, the fight to protect children from the predations of the gender ideology-industrial complex, the fight against Big Tech, or the fight to prioritize direct family policy payments for working families over (e.g.) capital gains tax cuts, the answers to many of our more pressing and charged issues become clearer when approached through this lens. Put simply, the Fortune 500 and the Chamber of Commerce are the GOP's past. Families are its future— if only the party would embrace that.

I've had two new podcast episodes since our last newsletter. You can listen on Apple (here and here), on Spotify (here and here), or wherever you get your podcasts.

In the latest podcast episode out this week, I briefly monologued about my experience at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this past weekend (see below) before being joined by Professor Amy Wax of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, who is facing an unconscionable attempt to strip her of tenure and (likely) fire her due to a series of conservative comments in recent years pertaining to culture, race, and immigration. One does not need to agree with Professor Wax to recognize that her ordeal is ground zero for the fight for academic freedom in America. Additionally, in last Friday's podcast episode, I monologued at length about the war in Ukraine—where things stand and where Americans should push for the conflict to go now that we are over a year in.

In terms of media appearances over the past week, I joined The Daily Signal (live at CPAC) for a wide-ranging, longer-form interview on the state of the Right and what the GOP's priorities should be moving forward, joined "The Rod Arquette Show" to discuss my most recent column, joined "The Jason Rantz Show" (also live from CPAC) to discuss the rise of the anti-Israel Left, joined the "Save Our States" podcast for their "6 Questions For..." series, and (as usual) co-hosted the Edmund Burke Foundation's most recent episode of the "NatCon Squad" podcast.

In terms of public appearances, I spoke at CPAC—widely billed as the largest and most influential conservative conference in America—last Friday afternoon, appearing alongside my friend Professor Eugene Kontorovich for a panel about Israel's judicial reform debate and the shocking " 'We the People' v. The Deep State" similarities to our own predicament in the U.S. This week, I am in the midst of four public events in Texas: I gave a conservatism-themed talk at Houston Christian University last night and will be giving another one at the University of Dallas this Thursday, both via the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and Young Conservatives of Texas. I also have two other legal-themed events in Dallas while I am in town this week (both of which pertain to my "common good originalism" jurisprudential thesis). If you are a Dallas-Fort Worth local and would like to attend either of tomorrow's two events, email me below for further details.

Our highlighted right-leaning Newsweek op-eds this week include selections from Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ), Dr. Scott Atlas, Josh Halpern, Caroline Glick, and Gavin Wax and Nathan Berger.

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