by Dr. Sassan Kaveh | Aug 27, 2026 | Blog
By Dr. Sassan Kaveh The national popular vote sounds like more democracy; in practice it would dismantle the federal architecture that makes a continental republic governable. The Founders rejected it on the merits in 1787 — and the case against it has only...
by Dr. Sassan Kaveh | Aug 20, 2026 | Blog
By Dr. Sassan Kaveh Self-reliance is the load-bearing virtue of the American republic: the Constitution assumes citizens competent to run their own lives, and no structure of limited government survives the loss of that competence. Rebuilding self-reliance is...
by Dr. Sassan Kaveh | Aug 13, 2026 | Blog
By Dr. Sassan Kaveh American Exceptionalism is not a boast — it is a structural description. The United States is the only nation founded on a written argument about legitimate government, and that founding still separates it from every other country on earth....
by Dr. Sassan Kaveh | Aug 6, 2026 | Blog
By Dr. Sassan Kaveh Free speech in America was written as an absolute — fourteen words with no exceptions — by men who had personally published what the Crown called sedition. Every modern attempt to carve new exceptions is a wager that this generation’s censors...
by Dr. Sassan Kaveh | Jul 30, 2026 | Blog
By Dr. Sassan Kaveh The Federalist Papers are the instruction manual of the American republic — eighty-five essays written in ten months by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay to explain exactly how the Constitution was designed to work. Most of today’s political...
by Dr. Sassan Kaveh | Jul 23, 2026 | Blog
By Dr. Sassan Kaveh The Bill of Rights does not grant Americans their rights — it forbids the federal government from violating rights the Founders held to pre-exist all government. Ratified in 1791, those ten amendments remain the hardest structural limit on power in...
by Dr. Sassan Kaveh | Jul 7, 2026 | Blog
By Dr. Sassan Kaveh The Electoral College is not a glitch in American democracy — it is a load-bearing wall of the constitutional structure, designed to force presidents to win the country rather than merely the crowd. The campaign to abolish it is, knowingly or not,...
by Dr. Sassan Kaveh | Jul 7, 2026 | Blog
By Dr. Sassan Kaveh Presidential health is not a private medical matter — it is a national security variable, and the United States still relies almost entirely on the honor system to learn whether the most powerful person on earth is fit to serve. As a physician, I...
by Dr. Sassan Kaveh | Jul 7, 2026 | Op-Ed
By Sassan Kaveh, M.D. Historical patterns are the best indicator of future behavior. If Americans understood this one sentence, they would understand far more about our politics than most schools and cable news programs will ever explain. The Question the...
by Dr. Sassan Kaveh | Jul 2, 2026 | Op-Ed
Why America’s Newest Federal Holiday Celebrates an Important Event, But Not the Most Important Event in the Story of Slavery’s Abolition By Sassan Kaveh, M.D. America’s newest federal holiday spotlights Juneteenth — but the full story of Juneteenth...
