Liberty Law Talk

June 3, 2019|Alexandre Kojève, and Firebrands, Conservatism, Fools, Foucault, Frauds, Habermas, Hegel, Marx, Progressivism, Roger Scruton

Dismantling the Leftist Academic Complex: A Conversation with Roger Scruton

by Sir Roger Scruton|

Scruton's crime was to have attempted to take the New Left seriously, finding it severely wanting, if not absurd.

May 16, 2019|Cold War, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, How Public Policy Became War, New Deal, Progressivism, The Federalist, War on Drugs, Woodrow Wilson, World War I

Politics as War: A Conversation with David Davenport

by David Davenport|

President Roosevelt delivers a "Fireside Chat".

David Davenport discusses how we lost "the cool, deliberate sense of the community" in making public policy and embraced the war metaphor.

May 1, 2019|Accreditation, Henry Manne, Higher Education, Student debt, Unprofitable Schooling

Why Higher Education Is a Cartel: A Conversation with Todd Zywicki

by Todd Zywicki|

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Todd Zywicki joins this episode to discuss the bad economics and perverse regulatory framework of higher education.

April 15, 2019|Christianity, James Madison, John Calvin, Liberty in the Things of God, Martin Luther, Reformation, Religious Freedom, Robert Louis Wilken, Rome, Tertullian, Thomas More

Fear God. Honor the Emperor. A Conversation with Robert Louis Wilken

by Robert Louis Wilken|

St. Peter's Square in the Vatican City.

Robert Louis Wilken discusses his new book Liberty in the Things of God.

April 1, 2019|capitalism, China, free trade, Globalization, Industrial Policy, Nationalism, tariffs

The Economic Nationalism Agenda: A Conversation with Daniel McCarthy

by Daniel McCarthy|

Steelworker utilizing an electric furnace (shutterstock.com)

Daniel McCarthy makes the case for a new conservative agenda rooted in an aggressive industrial policy.

March 14, 2019|Common Good, Decentralization, Federalism, Friedrich Hayek, subsidiarity

Decentralization and the Common Good: A Conversation with Andy Smarick

by Andy Smarick|

Main Street, Franklin, TN (shutterstock.com)

Andy Smarick discusses Hayek, subsidiarity, and the principles of authentic decentralization.

March 1, 2019|British Foreign Policy, Catholic Emancipation, Congress of Vienna, Corn Laws, English Constitution, free trade, Ireland, Lord Liverpool, Napoleonic Wars, Peterloo Massacre

Lord Liverpool & the British Tradition of Strategic Independence: A Conversation with William Anthony Hay

by William Anthony Hay|

William Anthony Hay talks about Lord Liverpool's excellent statesmanship.

February 14, 2019|Christianity, Natural Law, Paganism, Pagans & Christians in the City, Rome

Born-Again Paganism: A Conversation with Steven Smith

by Steven D. Smith|

Steven Smith talks with Richard Reinsch about his provocative thesis that a modern form of paganism is becoming public orthodoxy.

February 1, 2019|Andrew Bacevich, Christopher Lasch, Donald Trump, Iraq War, Middle East, Twilight of the American Century

“Slouching Towards Mar-a-Lago:” A Conversation with Andrew Bacevich

by Andrew J. Bacevich|

Andrew Bacevich discusses his new book Twilight of the American Century

January 16, 2019|Administrative State, Donald Trump, John Marini, Progressivism, Separation of Powers, Unmasking the Administrative State

Bureaucracy, Regulation, and the Unmanly Contempt for the Constitution

by John Marini|

John Marini unmasks the century-long effort to undermine the Constitution's distribution of power.

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

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

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.

Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

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

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.

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
Brennan’s Best or the Court’s Worst?

The opinion showed off a hallmark of Brennan's jurisprudence—his confidence that the Court was better than the political branches at making social policy.
by John O. McGinnis

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