Reclaiming the Citizenship of Our Fathers
Having just finished reading What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song, some readers might well ask, “Really, do we? Is it that simplistically romantic?” The editors might...
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Mary Ann Glendon Thanks to Greg Weiner (and the commenters) for taking on my original piece, which has gathered far more attention than I had anticipated. Greg argues that, “It has become commonplace...
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This edition of Liberty Law Talk is with Yuval Levin, author of The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left. A 2013 Bradley Prize recipient, Levin connects us with the...
View ArticleCitizen or Consumer? Michael Munger Responds
When it comes to voting by citizens in a democracy, there are four essential questions, as I see it, in marrying up the “should” and the “is.” How do citizens and consumers actually choose? How should...
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Modern fiat currencies depend for their value on confidence in the laws of the states that issue them. Some nations, like the United States with its established central bank, inspire substantial...
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Nineteenth-Century Americans associated with the nativist American Party (a.k.a., “Know Nothings”) proposed extended probationary periods before immigrants could apply for U.S. citizenship. They also...
View ArticleReclaiming the Citizenship of Our Fathers
Having just finished reading What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song, some readers might well ask, "Really, do we? Is it that simplistically romantic?" The editors might...
View ArticleThe Conservative Mind at 60: Russell Kirk’s Unwritten Constitutionalism
In his great work, The American Republic, written in 1866, the American Catholic political writer Orestes Brownson – who ranks with Calhoun and John Adams as among the finest political minds America...
View ArticleClassical Liberalism: Teaching Its Own Undoing
Professor Richard Epstein has performed a welcome service in reminding us of the classical liberal case for the freedom of association. The classical liberal champions the primacy of rights as...
View ArticleThe Conservative Mind at 60: Russell Kirk’s Unwritten Constitutionalism
In his great work, The American Republic, written in 1866, the American Catholic political writer Orestes Brownson – who ranks with Calhoun and John Adams as among the finest political minds America...
View ArticleThe Real America
Thanks to Greg Weiner (and the commenters) for taking on my original piece, which has gathered far more attention than I had anticipated. Greg argues that, “It has become commonplace to see the...
View ArticleRémi Brague Strikes Again
Rémi BragueRémi Brague, professor emeritus at the Sorbonne, and the subject of a post I wrote on the complicated western history of the Law of God, argues in a recent essay “The Impossibility of...
View ArticleEdmund Burke’s Perennial Liberty
Books reviewed in this essay: The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, by Corey Robin. Oxford University Press. The Common Mind: Politics, Society and Christian Humanism...
View ArticleThe Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
This edition of Liberty Law Talk is with Yuval Levin, author of The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left. A 2013 Bradley Prize recipient, Levin connects us with the...
View ArticleClassical Liberalism: Teaching Its Own Undoing
In response to: Freedom of Association and Antidiscrimination Law: An Imperfect Reconciliation Professor Richard Epstein has performed a welcome service in reminding us of the classical liberal case...
View ArticleCitizen or Consumer? Michael Munger Responds
When it comes to voting by citizens in a democracy, there are four essential questions, as I see it, in marrying up the “should” and the “is.” How do citizens and consumers actually choose? How should...
View ArticleBitcoin’s Creation of Order without Law
Modern fiat currencies depend for their value on confidence in the laws of the states that issue them. Some nations, like the United States with its established central bank, inspire substantial...
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