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How to Essay the Upright Man

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Leon Kass moved from science to the humanities as a renowned teacher of great books and applier of their wisdom, and we can learn much from him.

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These Truths Were Made for You and Me

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Lepore’s book reads like an effort to create a storyline that could help us to restore a lost world, but it is not history.

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The Progressive Jurist’s Burden

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When Flaherty argues for a "global judiciary," he means a better American judiciary to speak—when convenient—in the name of "the world community."

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President Trump and the Forever Wars

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Harold Koh calls for elite mobilization against the Trump Administration’s policies on armed conflict, immigration, trade, climate change, & human rights.

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Reason and Rhetoric

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We must rediscover how Aristotle’s Rhetoric brings light into what Socrates saw as the political “cave.”

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On Freedom, Paternalism, and Power

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Nudgers must then be endowed with significant interpretive leeway when it comes to setting priorities. Is this freedom?

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Remembering the Anti-Federalists Rightly

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Michael Faber provides a convincing account that Anti-Federalists supported a bill of rights, but only after their failure to stop the Constitution.

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Free Enterprise as Conspiracy

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Did defenders of free enterprise set out to morally “delegitimize” the New Deal order and with it “the most basic functions of government"?

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Henry Home, Legal Historian Par Excellence

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Above all else, Lord Kames sought to excite interest in an historical view of the law.

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What the Anti-Poverty Activists Hath Wrought

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Many prominent helpers of the disadvantaged thought nothing of turning anti-poverty efforts over to the state; but there were (and are) noble exceptions.

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