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The Weekly Letter
One short letter each Sunday, sent with the new essay: the idea in plain English, the question for our time, and that week's Freedom Note. Free, nonpartisan, and easy to leave.
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Week 5 · Sunday, Oct 4
Week 5: The Machinery of a Fair Accusation
The Fifth and Sixth Amendments do not promise that the innocent go free. They promise that the state must move through a known, public, reviewable procedure before it takes anyone's liberty.
Read this letterWeek 4 · Sunday, Sep 27
Week 4: Papers, Effects, and Modern Data
The Fourth Amendment was written against general warrants that let officers search anywhere for anything. The question of our decade is what that rule means when the papers are held by a company.
Read this letterWeek 3 · Sunday, Sep 20
Week 3: Arms, Militias, and the Fear of Standing Power
The Second and Third Amendments were written by people who had watched an army live in their houses. Read together, they are less about weapons than about who holds organized force in a free state.
Read this letterWeek 2 · Sunday, Sep 13
Week 2: Forty-Five Words, Six Freedoms
The First Amendment is one sentence long and does six separate jobs. Reading it as a single vague guarantee of self-expression is the most common way Americans lose track of what it actually protects.
Read this letterWeek 1 · Sunday, Sep 6
Week 1: Why Remember Freedom?
Rights do not enforce themselves. They are kept alive by citizens who know what they say, where they came from, and how they are lawfully used.
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