The twentieth century saw America discard representative government when it comes to war.| Law & Liberty
"Economically illiterate" policy may actually be quite rational, when it is understood that prosperity is not the goal.| Law & Liberty
The question isn’t whether Congress will eventually cobble together a deal; it always does. The real question is, why does this keep happening?| Law & Liberty
Alas, as with Thomas Paine, a rousing call to action is not the same as a blueprint for victory.| Law & Liberty
Conventional wisdom holds that Republican voters are getting more extreme. But George Hawley’s book shows a fundamental moderation in their politics.| Law & Liberty
Progressive ideology won’t protect the environment—conservatives must present realistic alternatives.| Law & Liberty
John Ellis offers a necessary corrective to historians who have largely lost perspective on the past.| Law & Liberty
For over a century, presidents have charted America’s global course. Was it always supposed to be that way?| Law & Liberty
Amy Watson’s new book argues that the transatlantic party ideology of Patriotism is essential for understanding the genesis of the American Revolution.| Law & Liberty
Constitutional limits just keep stymieing progress.| Law & Liberty
To understand Congress’s abdication, look at the history of presidential selection.| Law & Liberty
The Federalist does more than merely explain how the Constitution is supposed to work—it provides a civic education America must recover.| Law & Liberty
Universities can help heal our civic culture by getting back to their own truth-seeking mission.| Law & Liberty
Popular liberal critics of originalism argue on the basis of bad history and biased narratives.| Law & Liberty
Initial job losses are likely, but AI will ultimately make society functionally more knowledgeable—and therefore more productive.| Law & Liberty
To overcome this wave of political violence, we must rethink what politics means to us—and above all, abandon the sense that politics is a kind of war.| Law & Liberty
Today's Right could use someone with Frank Meyer's gift for harmonizing disparate truths.| Law & Liberty
The Constitution’s original critics warned that presidential ambitions for imperial greatness could lead directly to militarism and tyranny.| Law & Liberty
Changes in bureaucratic procedure are revolutionizing how the administrative state works—potentially reestablishing democratic control.| Law & Liberty
The latent horror of Eddington isn’t that it happened, but how quickly we learned to live with it.| Law & Liberty
Every judge or legal scholar should have this book ready at hand.| Law & Liberty
The provocateur attracts conservatives who prefer cheap solutions instead of confronting complex moral questions.| Law & Liberty
Russia's Decembrist Uprising of 1825 ended in tragedy, but a new book characterizing it as “the first Russian revolution” uncovers its universal ideals.| Law & Liberty
Disney's new Snow White is the elitist of them all.| Law & Liberty
A new biography explores the work and mind of a leading American journalist of the twentieth century.| Law & Liberty
While the transcendent aspirations of conservatives like John Wilsey are good and true, they must take populist challenges more seriously.| Law & Liberty
Patriotism’s relationship to history is bound to be complicated.| Law & Liberty
A new biography shows the complexity and nobility of Sir Thomas More.| Law & Liberty
Both sides accuse the other of being a threat to democracy. But what does that really mean?| Law & Liberty
The gap between Silicon Valley’s aspirations and public trust may be widening, but a revival of humanistic virtue could bridge it.| Law & Liberty
Francis Fukuyama made the philosophy of history relevant again. Thirty years on, how does his most famous book hold up?| Law & Liberty
When Pope Francis’ encyclical letter on the environment and economy, “Our Common Home,” was released in May, the response was a veritable media frenzy. That papal text warrants lots of sustained attention, to be sure. By contrast, no fanfare accompanied Eerdmans’ 2014 publication of the first English translation of Analogia Entis. It is, however, a […]| Law & Liberty
Anthony Kronman tries to infuse the warmth of the Enlightenment into the rationalist universe of Spinoza.| Law & Liberty
Examining the classical liberal tradition's shaping of law and a free society.| Law & Liberty
AI didn’t break higher ed. We did.| Law & Liberty
Populists and postliberals claim to be the pioneers of a “new conservatism”—but all they really advocate is economic sophistry.| Law & Liberty
The repurposing of Tulsa’s Honor Program is representative of a troubling homogenization trend in higher education.| Law & Liberty
To make the American Dream a reality, we must shed our anti-industrial mindset and policies.| Law & Liberty
Gregory Collins has written the definitive account of Burke’s economic thought.| Law & Liberty
The Federal Reserve is losing billions of taxpayer dollars, and concealing this through dubious accounting practices.| Law & Liberty
While applying artificial intelligence to problems of government carries risks, it could also help decentralize power in reinvigorating ways.| Law & Liberty
Mark David Hall, Miles Smith IV, and Daniel K. Williams join the podcast to discuss and debate the character of "Christian Nationalism."| Law & Liberty
New tactics are yielding some fruit in the struggle against "stakeholder capitalism."| Law & Liberty
Even if the outcome was right, the Supreme Court’s procedure in TikTok v. Garland was all wrong.| Law & Liberty
Many Americans are looking for any possible way to push back against centralized, often illegitimate authority. Nullification is not the way to do it.| Law & Liberty
Luke Sheahan reviews Robert Nisbet's book, The Degradation of the Academic Dogma, to see how much the university has not changed in the past fifty years.| Law & Liberty
To preserve both the country and political philosophy, Jaffa returned to the beginning.| Law & Liberty
Martin v. Boise is an abomination that has wreaked havoc on cities across the Ninth Circuit.| Law & Liberty
Yuval Levin's American Covenant argues that the Constitution still has what it takes to restore health to American political life.| Law & Liberty
De Beauvoir raised important questions about womanhood, but generated only ideological answers.| Law & Liberty
An imported "oppressor-oppressed" ideology ran smack-dab into the intensely democratic and egalitarian Australian political order.| Law & Liberty
The superstitio in our universities may lead those institutions to the same fate as the monasteries under Henry VIII.| Law & Liberty
Former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels reflects on our looming debt disaster.| Law & Liberty
Why not consider the crafts and trades of vocational training, the performing arts, or the service professions part of the liberal arts?| Law & Liberty
If higher education is about signaling academic attainment, then it helps no-one when the signal is scrambled.| Law & Liberty
