Barton Swaim Subscribe

Barton Swaim is opinion editor at the Weekly Standard and author of The Speechwriter: A Brief Education in Politics.

March 1, 2018|Arthur Ponsonby, George Orwell, Thomas E. Ricks, Totalitarianism, Winston Churchill

Churchill, Orwell, and Why We Admire Them

by Barton Swaim|

George Orwell and Winston Churchill (Images: J. Russell and Sons/BBC via Wikimedia Commons).

In an age of postmodern hyper-individualism, Churchill and Orwell’s advocacy of individual liberty isn’t what is most interesting about them.

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.

Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

A discussion with Graham McAleer

Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

The Just Restraint of the Vicious

For some contemporary criminal justice reformers, devotion to ideology leads to illogical conclusions about human nature and character change.
by Gerard T. Mundy
Too Immature to be Punished?

When I look back on my own life, I think I knew by the age of ten that one should not strangle old ladies in their beds.
by Theodore Dalrymple
A Badge of Discrimination

The British National Health Service has spoken: Wear the badge or declare yourself to be a bigot.
by Theodore Dalrymple
A Judicial Takeover of Asylum Policy?

Thuraissigiam threatens to make both the law and the facts in every petition for asylum—and there are thousands of them—a matter for the courts.
by Thomas Ascik
The Environmental Uncertainty Principle

By engaging in such flagrant projection, the Times has highlighted once again the problem with groupthink in the climate discussion.
by Paul Schwennesen

Law & Liberty’s focus is on the classical liberal tradition of law and political thought and how it shapes a society of free and responsible persons. This site brings together serious debate, commentary, essays, book reviews, interviews, and educational material in a commitment to the first principles of law in a free society. Law & Liberty considers a range of foundational and contemporary legal issues, legal philosophy, and pedagogy.

The opinions expressed on Law & Liberty are solely those of the contributors to the site and do not reflect the opinions of Liberty Fund.

Barton Swaim Subscribe

About