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Richard M. Reinsch II is the editor of Law & Liberty and the host of LibertyLawTalk. He is coauthor with Peter Augustine Lawler of A Constitution in Full: Recovering the Unwritten Foundation of American Liberty (Kansas Press, May 2019). You can follow him @Reinsch84

March 12, 2020|Age of Entitlement, Brown v. Board of Education, Christopher Caldwell, Civil Rights Act, Colorblind Constitution, Great Society, Green v. Kent New County, Griggs v. Duke Power, Parents Involved v. Seattle School District, Plessy v. Ferguson, Ronald Reagan

American Agonistes

by Richard M. Reinsch II|

Overhead view of the massive crowd assembled during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington DC, August 28, 1963. (Photo by Robert W. Kelley/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)
Caldwell's Age of Entitlement argues that the civil rights state is the anvil upon which our nation wages its incessant political contests.

January 27, 2020|

Economic Nationalism Can’t Heal the U.S.

by Richard M. Reinsch II|

In response to: How Economic Nationalism Hurts Nations

Panoramic view of the Bethlehem Steel Factory in Bethlehem, PA. The factory operated from 1857-2003 (gary718 / Shutterstock.com).
We aren’t going to spend or policy-wonk our way out of decline and anomie in certain segments of our population.

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Comparative Disadvantage

by Oren Cass

If comparative advantage is created rather than discovered, refusing to play the game has consequences.

Economic Nationalism as Political Realism

by Daniel McCarthy

No market exists in a social vacuum, and hardly any market exists in a political vacuum.

Why the Case for Economic Nationalism Fails

by Samuel Gregg

American policymakers and citizens should acknowledge that the benefits promised by economic nationalism are illusory.

January 8, 2020|A Hidden Life, Christianity, Franz Jägerstätter, Nazi, Terrence Malick

The True Fatherland

by Richard M. Reinsch II|

Still from A Hidden Life (Fox Searchlight).
Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life demonstrates the call made on one man to rise above tyranny.

January 8, 2020|John Grove

Announcing John Grove

by Richard M. Reinsch II|

I am excited to announce that John Grove has joined Law & Liberty as Associate Editor.

October 11, 2019|Free Markets, NBA, Social Justice, Stakeholders, woke capital

The Blowback Dividends of Woke Capitalism

by Richard M. Reinsch II|

BEIJING, CHINA - OCTOBER 09: A display is seen near a logo outside the NBA flagship retail store in Beijing. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
The real legacy of woke capital gives shape to an outrage style in politics, one that ultimately threatens free markets.

October 7, 2019|Declaration of Independence, George Will, James Madison, Judicial Review, Natural Rights, Progressivism, Statecraft as Soulcraft, Whittaker Chambers, Woodrow Wilson

Progress of a Conservative

by Richard M. Reinsch II|

George Will at CPAC 2014 (shutterstock.com)
“The Founders intended the Constitution to promote a way of life, and they understood that to promote a way of life is to promote a kind of person.”

July 23, 2019|China Shock, Deaths of Despair, Economic Nationalism, free trade, Industrial Policy, Manufacturing jobs, National Conservatism, Oren Cass

The True Costs of an Industrial Policy

by Richard M. Reinsch II|

Production of metal components in a foundry (shutterstock.com)
Serving the consumer as the captain of the economy is the price of entry to the dynamism of a market economy.

May 13, 2019|European Union, Frank Furedi, Hungary Constitution, Populism and the European Culture Wars, Robert Schuman, St. Stephen, Viktor Orban

Orbán Puts the Political Question to the EU

by Richard M. Reinsch II|

Statue of King Stephen I. and Queen Gisela in Veszprem, Hungary. (shutterstock.com)
Orbán threatens the legitimacy of the European Union’s technocratic governance by recalling the much deeper resources of Western civilization.

March 5, 2019|Comparative Advantage, Conservatism, Dependency Theory, free trade, Industrial Policy

State-Based Conservatism­­­­­­­­: A Response to Daniel McCarthy’s “New Conservative Agenda”

by Richard M. Reinsch II|

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Meat-cleaver economic nationalism will probably lead us down a path we’ll wish we had never taken.

February 4, 2019|Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Between Two Millstones, Cold War, Henry Kissinger, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The Gulag Archipelago

Solzhenitsyn in Exile

by Richard M. Reinsch II|

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is mobbed by journalists on his arrival in Zurich in 1974 after being deprived of his Soviet citizenship following the publication of The Gulag Archipelago. (Keystone/Getty Images)
Solzhenitsyn had become, as the foreign policy analysts say, an existential threat to the Soviet Union. He had to be expelled.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Podcasts

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

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

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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.

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Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

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

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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.

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