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February 10, 2020|bioethics, dignity, Leon Kass

How to Essay the Upright Man

by Ryan Shinkel|

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.

February 5, 2020|1619 Project, Jill Lepore, Slavery

These Truths Were Made for You and Me

by Richard Samuelson|

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.

February 3, 2020|ACLU, global justice, International Law, Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, Marvin Flaherty, Medellin v. Texas, Roper v. Simmons

The Progressive Jurist’s Burden

by Jeremy A. Rabkin|

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

January 27, 2020|China, Harold Koh, Iraq, Syria, The Trump Administration and International Law, Travel Ban

President Trump and the Forever Wars

by Robert J. Delahunty|

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

January 20, 2020|Aristotle, Political Philosophy, Rhetoric

Reason and Rhetoric

by Mary P. Nichols|

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

January 13, 2020|Cass Sunstein, coercion, Freedom, Nudge

On Freedom, Paternalism, and Power

by Guido Pincione|

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

January 6, 2020|Anti-Federalist, Constitution, Herbert Storing, Michael J. Faber, Pauline Maier, Saul Cornell

Remembering the Anti-Federalists Rightly

by Nathan Coleman|

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

December 23, 2019|free enterprise, Lawrence B. Glickman

Free Enterprise as Conspiracy

by Phillip W. Magness|

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

December 16, 2019|Historical Law-Tracts, Lord Kames, Scottish Enlightenment

Henry Home, Legal Historian Par Excellence

by Steven Grosby|

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

December 9, 2019|Civil Society, Howard A. Husock, Social Norms

What the Anti-Poverty Activists Hath Wrought

by Daniel P. Schmidt, Michael E. Hartmann|

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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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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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

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