Over time, individualism has sapped our associations’ vitality, especially as the government has demanded they transform themselves.
Bruce P. Frohnen
Class is not the narrow, monolithic reification of Marx’s imagination. A proper understanding of it is important for conservatism.
In making a constitutional interpretation, the courts must treat previous interpretations as indicators of the law, not the law itself.
If we are to have some hope of recovery rather than civil surrender to identity politics, we must rely on tools beyond civil discourse.
Postell and O'Neill have produced a volume that perpetuates the unfortunate “Wall Street vs. Main Street” divide in American conservatism.
Most lawyers today seem to believe that they must make new law because the one they inherited was in fact fundamentally unjust.
Until recently, our common law has always assumed that faith has a place in society.
We need to understand the role religion played in public life - and still does play - to grapple with how the courts should think about the matter.
By stifling religion and the communities that form around it, the courts undermine religion's capacity to house safely our natural drive for meaning.
Bruce Frohnen reviews Heinrich Rommen's warning against legal positivism and reminder of the vital importance of natural law.
Bruce P. Frohnen holds a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University and a J.D. from Emory University School of Law and is Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law. His latest book, with Ted V. McAllister, is Character in the American Experience: An Unruly People (Lexington Books, 2022).