The protestors who pressured Yale University into scrubbing the legacy of John C. Calhoun—racist, slaveholder and forthright apologist for African bondage; statesman, philosopher and critic of excessive executive power and American imperial ambitions; and, unto Saturday, namesake of a residential college at the alma mater where he was valedictorian of the class of 1804—have no…
There are several ways of understanding how people can become addicted to drugs. It has been described as a brain…
The Senate has often been referred to as the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body, most frequently by the Senators themselves. But…
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Rumblings of secession talk in California, as in Texas a few years back, raises the…
In a recent column criticizing originalists for putting politics over principle, Cass R. Sunstein described…
Mark L. Movesian’s post on the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom of 1786 brought to…
The Senate has often been referred to as the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body, most frequently…
Judge Neil Gorsuch is worthy successor to Justice Antonin Scalia. He is an advocate of…
With his nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch President Trump may have done more for originalism…
A short while ago, I wrote a post advocating that we amend the Constitution to…
In his most recent column, Harvard Law Professor Cass Sunstein criticizes originalism: But originalism is just…
Sometimes I think following politics is just crazy. It is as if one is being…
Liberty Law Forum
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton entered the 2016 campaign as the least popular major-party presidential nominees in the history of polling. Clinton was widely regarded as some combination of corrupt and disingenuous. Many of Trump’s most serious supporters still tend to defend him from a posture more of apology than enthusiasm. The campaign played out…
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The Road to Serfdom’s publication was one of the intellectual and political turning points of the 20th century. The bloom was starting to come off the rose of socialism and Hayek explained why—in clear, crisp, and precise language and in a spirit of respect for those who had believed or still believed in socialism. I’m…
