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January 21, 2019|Andrew Sullivan, Benjamin Disraeli, Civil Rights Movement, Donald Trump, E.P. Thompson, Ezra Klein, Frank Buckley, Make America Great Again, The Fractured Republic, The Republican Workers Party, the Vital Center, Yuval Levin

Buckley’s American Greatness Narrative: A Look Under the Hood

by Samuel Goldman|

Trucks being built at the General Motors plant in Pontiac, Michigan, 1957
Crafting a Trump ideology isn’t that easy, as F.H. Buckley’s latest book shows.

March 2, 2018|Administrative State, Class Action suits, Diversity Jurisdiction, Donald Trump, Executive Power, Federalism, Frank Buckley, The Republic of Virtue

Republican Virtue, Interrupted: A Conversation with Frank Buckley

by F.H. Buckley|

Peace Monument, erected in 1877, Capitol Hill.
The real conflict in our politics centers on reforming massive levels of public corruption.

April 28, 2015|Entitlements, Frank Buckley, Loony Party, Parliamentary System, Presidential system

Vote Loony, The Time Is Now

by Michael S. Greve|

Beautiful view of Westminster by night

As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to give the Let’s-Make-It-Up Clause a full workout, let’s talk about something completely different: the upcoming elections. Not ours, eighteen-plus months hence—the Brits’. The campaign over there has been under way, in a serious fashion, for six weeks or so; it’ll be over in less than another fortnight.

The rather more compressed time frame of elections over there suggests (to anyone except campaign consultants and “democracy” enthusiasts) that Britain’s parliamentary system is superior to our presidential-plus-primary system, at least on this margin. The question whether parliamentary government is generally better has been the staple of a vast body of literature—including, recently, my colleague Francis H. Buckley’s emphatic defense of his native Canada’s parliamentary system.

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May 1, 2014|Frank Buckley

Introducing May Guest Blogger Frank Buckley

by Richard M. Reinsch II|

It's my pleasure to introduce Frank Buckley, Foundation Professor at George Mason School of Law, as our guest blogger for the month of May. You might recall his previous work on this site on the rise of executive power and the decline of liberty in America and the recent podcast we did on his latest book The Once and Future King: The Rise of Crown Government in America published by Encounter Books last month. I look forward to his posts on the administrative state, executive power, and other issues.

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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