• About
  • Contact
  • Staff
  • Home
  • Essays
  • Forum
  • Podcasts
  • Book Reviews
  • Liberty Classics

Mark Pulliam Subscribe

Mark Pulliam is a contributing editor of Law & Liberty.

February 28, 2020|Amendment Process, Equal Rights Amendment, Phyllis Schlafly, Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The ERA Is Back?

by Mark Pulliam|

A crowd at an ERA rally (Barbara Freeman/Getty Images)
Will bellbottoms, platform shoes, and disco enjoy a similar revival? Don’t count on it; only some retro fashions qualify as “woke.”

February 5, 2020|Labor Unions, NLRB

Are Labor Unions Outmoded Institutions?

by Mark Pulliam|

Lyft driver's vehicle with posters advocating for California Assembly Bill 5 to pass, September 29, 2019 (Philip Rozenski/Shutterstock.com).
Still engaged in an atavistic class struggle, organized labor operates as a monopoly—long outlawed in every other sphere of the economy.

January 29, 2020|ABA, American Legal Profession, Federalist Society, Freedom of Association, Judiciary

The Federalist Society is Under Attack (Again)

by Mark Pulliam|

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts pauses during a speech to the Federalist Society 25th anniversary celebration Friday, Nov. 16, 2007 in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo).
The Left, having gained hegemony in so many spheres of American life, has grown frustrated at its failure to extinguish the opposition in legal academia.

December 17, 2019|Aristotle, John Finnis, Natural Law, Originalism's Promise

Originalism as a Model of Political Communication

by Mark Pulliam|

The Faulkner murals of the Declaration and Constitution, on display in the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom at the National Archives.
Strang’s exploration of natural law as a justification of originalism is provocative and could move the debate in a new direction.

November 11, 2019|Albert Hirschman, economic migration, freedom of movement, interstate competition

Exit Stage Right

by Mark Pulliam|

Moving van on a California freeway (Sundry Photography / Shutterstock.com).
Mobility enables Americans to improve their well-being by pursuing more attractive opportunities elsewhere in this magnificent, sprawling country.

September 20, 2019|A Republic If You Can Keep It, Constitution, Neil Gorsuch, Originalism

Explaining Originalism

by Mark Pulliam|

Justice Neil Gorsuch in U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Justice Neil Gorsuch offers up a national civics lesson for a country that greatly needs it.

August 12, 2019|Capital, Haymarket Massacre, Labor, strike, union

The Myth of Labor Union Victimhood

by Mark Pulliam|

The Los Angeles Times building was destroyed after labor unionists bombed it. The attack killed 21 people on October 1, 1910.
Employers were not primarily responsible for violence in labor disputes.

August 2, 2019|Brett Kavanaugh, Carrie Severino, Christine Blasey Ford, Confirmation Process, Michael Avenatti, Mollie Hemingway

Capra Meets Kafka: Political Intrigue Too Bizarre for Fiction

by Mark Pulliam|

Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee, September 4, 2018 (Patsy Lynch/Alamy Live News).
Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino—both seasoned Washington hands—expose a tale of political intrigue more hair-raising than the conventions of fiction.

July 29, 2019|Bruce Cannon Gibney, legal reform, The Nonsense Factory

Lost in Nonsense

by Mark Pulliam|

Roman Motizov/Shutterstock.com
The Silicon Valley nouveau riche are different from the rest of us; they are more grandiose.

July 17, 2019|Clarence Darrow, evolution, Inherit the Wind, Scopes Trial, William Jennings Bryan

Inheriting the Wind, or Reaping the Whirlwind?

by Mark Pulliam|

Clarence Seward Darrow (1857-1938), defended John Scopes who was charged with violating Tennessee state law forbidding teaching of evolution in the public school system. Seated to his left is William Jennings Bryan.
Almost all of the “conventional wisdom” concerning the Scopes trial is false and was manufactured to meet the needs of the new provincialism.
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • …
  • 11
  • Next Page »

Book Reviews

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

Read More

The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

Read More

Liberty Classics

Rereading Politica in the Post-Liberal Moment

by Glenn A. Moots

Althusius offers a rich constitutionalism that empowers persons to thrive alongside one another in deliberate communities.

Read More

James Fenimore Cooper and the American Experiment

by Melissa Matthes

In The American Democrat, James Fenimore Cooper defended democracy against both mob rule and majority tyranny.

Read More

Podcasts

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

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

Read More

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.

Read More

Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

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

Read More

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.

Read More

Recent Posts

  • 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

Blogroll

  • Acton PowerBlog
  • Cafe Hayek
  • Cato@Liberty
  • Claremont
  • Congress Shall Make No Law
  • EconLog
  • Fed Soc Blog
  • First Things
  • Hoover
  • ISI First Principles Journal
  • Legal Theory Blog
  • Marginal Revolution
  • Pacific Legal Liberty Blog
  • Point of Law
  • Power Line
  • Professor Bainbridge
  • Ricochet
  • Right Reason
  • Spengler
  • The American
  • The Beacon Blog
  • The Foundry
  • The Originalism Blog
  • The Public Discourse
  • University Bookman
  • Via Meadia
  • Volokh

Archives

  • All Posts & Publications
  • Book Reviews
  • Liberty Forum
  • Liberty Law Blog
  • Liberty Law Talk

About

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.
  • Home
  • About
  • Staff
  • Contact
  • Archive

© 2021 Liberty Fund, Inc.

This site uses local and third-party cookies to analyze traffic. If you want to know more, click here.
By closing this banner or clicking any link in this page, you agree with this practice.Accept Read More
Privacy & Cookies Policy
Necessary Always Enabled

Subscribe
Get Law and Liberty's latest content delivered to you daily
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
Close