The New Deal Paved the Way for Today’s Jan. 6 Prosecutions

A new historical analysis of administrative law exposes FDR’s suppression of civil liberties.

Given the accumulating evidence of corruption within the executive branch of the United States government, it is hard not to believe that we are living through the worst of times, and that the American dream of virtuous republican government is now doomed.

Certainly, this may be the case. But it is more probable (as our framers understood) that republics, since the days of Rome, tend  gradually toward c...