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December 2, 2019|alt right, Clint Watts, ISIS, Messing with the Enemy, Russia

Surviving Russophobia

by George Hawley|

Clint Watts argues that contemporary fears about Russia are well justified.

November 25, 2019|Religious Liberty, Sacred Liberty, Steven Waldman

A Nuanced Report Card on Religious Liberty

by Mark David Hall|

Religious liberty is well protected today; legislatures often craft accommodations to protect religious minorities. But the struggle is not over.

November 18, 2019|Armies of Deliverance, Elizabeth Varon, Reconstruction, Representative Hamilton Ward

Northerners’ Failed Mission in the Civil War: Saving the South

by Allen Guelzo|

Elizabeth Varon’s impressive Civil War history contributes to an emerging new theory about why Reconstruction failed.

November 11, 2019|Benjamin Franklin, Great Seal of the United States, Limited Government, Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land, Thomas Jefferson

The Israelites and the Americans

by David Conway|

A sourcebook on the Hebrew Bible’s influence on the formation of a new government in the New World.

November 4, 2019|Aaron Rhodes, Declaration of Independence, MIke Pompeo, The Debasement of Human Rights, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Righting Our Understanding of Human Rights: A Tough Job

by Marc F. Plattner|

Aaron Rhodes is right about the need to rethink human rights, but his book shows that the intellectual and political obstacles to doing so are enormous.

October 28, 2019|Converts to the Real, Edmund Husserl, Edward Baring, phenomenology, Rene Descartes, Thomism

Phenomenology’s Influence in the West

by Graham McAleer|

Phenomenology has been just as important to Catholic theology as to philosophy.

October 21, 2019|Alastair MacIntyre, Classical Liberalism, Conservatism, Michael Oakeshott, Michael Polyani, Reason, Tradition

A Better Guide than Reason—Or Not?

by Virginia Arbery|

In recovering tradition, how can the presuppositions of a believing culture apply to one bereft of belief?

October 14, 2019|missionaries, Social Gospel

Preaching the American Gospel

by Glenn A. Moots|

The author demonstrates the consequences of progressive social thought for mainline Protestantism: ecumenical denominations faded, evangelicals flourished.

October 7, 2019|A Short History of European Law, Civil Law, Common Law, Tamar Herzog

European Law and the “Myth of English Exceptionalism”

by Michael I. Krauss|

A primer on the intertwined history of civil codes and the common law.

September 30, 2019|Brian C. Rathbun, International Relations, raison d'etat

What Does a Truly Rational Statesman Look Like?

by David Polansky|

Brian C. Rathbun explores the psychological difficulty of truly practicing Realpolitik, and what this means for international relations.
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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

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    For some contemporary criminal justice reformers, devotion to ideology leads to illogical conclusions about human nature and character change.
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    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.
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