Description Americans have never been more divided, and we\'re ripe for a breakup.
His most recent books are The Republican Workers Party (2018)
The Republic of Virtue (2017)
The Way Back: Restoring the Promise.
He is a senior editor at the American Spectator, a columnist for the New York Post, and has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and many other newspapers.
He is a frequent media guest and has appeared on Morning Joe, CNN, The Rush Limbaugh Show, C-SPAN, NPR and numerous other outlets.
Buckley is a Foundation Professor at George Mason University\'s Scalia School of Law.
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But if that isn\'t what we really want, Buckley proposes another option, a kind of Secession Lite, that could heal our divisions while allowing us to keep our identity as Americans.
This book explodes that comforting belief and shows just how easy it would be for a state to exit the Union if that\'s what its voters wanted.
Do we imagine that we, almost alone in the world, are immune? We had a civil war to prevent a secession, and we\'re tempted to see that terrible precedent as proof against another effort.
Many have already split apart.
Across the world, large countries are staring down secession movements.
On many counts, bigness is badness.
There are advantages to bigness, certainly, but the costs exceed the benefits.
They\'re less inclined to throw their weight around militarily, and they\'re freer too.
In population and area, the United States is one of the biggest countries in the world, and American Secession provides data showing that smaller countries are happier and less corrupt.
Buckley: we\'re too big.
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There\'s another reason why secession beckons, says F.
In all the ways that matter, save for the naked force of law, we are already two nations.
The bitter partisan animosities, the legislative gridlock, the growing acceptance of violence in the name of political virtue--it all invites us to think that we\'d be happier were we two different countries.
Description Americans have never been more divided, and we\'re ripe for a breakup
