When Covid Broke Reality
The latent horror of Eddington isn’t that it happened, but how quickly we learned to live with it.| Law & Liberty
The latent horror of Eddington isn’t that it happened, but how quickly we learned to live with it.| Law & Liberty
A new edition of Rousseau’s letters sheds light on the personality and thought of one of the Enlightenment’s greatest and strangest figures.| Law & Liberty
To be fully American means building one’s life together with other Americans, embedded in thick layers of associations, in the spirit of self-governing.| Law & Liberty
The new crypto regulatory framework fixes one problem while worsening another.| Law & Liberty
A new book by Chantal Delsol exposes the ideological perversion choking French politics.| Law & Liberty
In the name of social mobility, colleges have tracked many students into dead-end degree programs.| Law & Liberty
“Natural law” has a strong brand identity in Western philosophy, but even many of its critics affirm a moral realism essential to the concept.| Law & Liberty
As a new book on their travels together shows, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's friendship went beyond politics.| Law & Liberty
The twentieth century saw America discard representative government when it comes to war.| Law & Liberty
Casting our gaze into the past may help illuminate the legal status of birthright citizenship.| Law & Liberty
Across American history, church-state separation has protected churches from factional capture and state corruption.| Law & Liberty
The American people really are more complex (and interesting) than our current Manichaean style of politics.| Law & Liberty
A university is an institution for finding truth by reason. First Amendment doctrine aims at something different.| Law & Liberty
Every judge or legal scholar should have this book ready at hand.| Law & Liberty
Congressional revival is possible but must first overcome a matrix of polarization, fiscal plight, and democracy’s cultural decay.| Law & Liberty
The Iron Lady’s life after her premiership offers instructive lessons about the place of a retired politician in a democratic society.| Law & Liberty
Despite strong talk, the Department of Education has avoided the executioner's axe.| Law & Liberty
Bank regulation is a crucial piece of the administrative state's apparatus.| Law & Liberty
The provocateur attracts conservatives who prefer cheap solutions instead of confronting complex moral questions.| Law & Liberty
Georgios Varouxakis reexamines when and why people began to conceptualize "the West."| Law & Liberty
He loved classical music, and assisting people who interested him or inspired his admiration.| Law & Liberty
The thirteenth-century scholar offers a straightforward textualist approach to law that Scalia would commend.| 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
If Congressmen want to be free from party strictures, they must be closer to their constituents.| Law & Liberty
Robert VerBruggen joins the Law & Liberty Podcast to discuss civil rights after DEI.| Law & Liberty
When people are hungry for community, they crave collectivism the way starving people crave junk food.| Law & Liberty
In an era of populist confusion, what are conservatism's truest aspirations?| Law & Liberty
Conservatism needs to rediscover its aspirational character to appeal to a rising generation.| Law & Liberty
The American Right desperately needs John Wilsey’s new book, because it needs a vision to aspire to.| Law & Liberty
While the transcendent aspirations of conservatives like John Wilsey are good and true, they must take populist challenges more seriously.| Law & Liberty
Michael Oakeshott shows us that the renewal of higher learning requires more than free speech.| Law & Liberty
Smashing the patriarchy sounded fun, but it turns out even rebels often depend on the norms they are undermining.| Law & Liberty
Patriotism’s relationship to history is bound to be complicated.| Law & Liberty
The fall of the Roman Republic demonstrates that any free government depends on the rule of law for its survival.| 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
Radical left-wing mayoral candidates are thriving on urban discontent—but their socialist tendencies don't fit metropolitan governance.| 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
Video games are an art form, and cultural critics on the right ought to take note of this powerful medium.| Law & Liberty
Looking at Band of Brothers, pop culture’s best case for “The Greatest Generation,” 20 years on.| Law & Liberty
Black Hawk Down tells a story that honors American soldiers, but also has a clear warning about what has become the American way of waging war.| Law & Liberty
Great men prove what we are capable of, but they also prove that institutions are not by themselves enough.| Law & Liberty
Greyhound offers an unusually deep look at a faithful captain struggling against the enemy to deliver his flock safely to port.| Law & Liberty
How should we assess the democratic way of war on Memorial Day?| Law & Liberty
While applying artificial intelligence to problems of government carries risks, it could also help decentralize power in reinvigorating ways.| Law & Liberty
We must reinvigorate constitutionalism, liberalize our economies, and strengthen the values and habits that breathe life into all these things.| 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
