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David French is Senior Counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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Machiavelli's Common Good

by Mark Blitz
Machiavelli’s Politics is aptly named. Catherine Zuckert’s new book concentrates intently on Niccolo Machiavelli’s judgment about how best to govern political communities in the ordinary sense—places such as Florence and…

The Unbridled Faith

by Donald Devine
With an estimated 40,000 Protestant denominations worldwide, how is it possible to compress such a subject in a single book, even in 500 pages on the 500th anniversary of the…

Introducing Originalism: A Conversation with Ilan Wurman

A discussion with Ilan Wurman

Ilan Wurman joins this edition of Liberty Law Talk to discuss his new book, A Debt against the Living: An Introduction to Originalism.

The Personal Is Always Political: A Conversation with David Walsh

A discussion with David Walsh

Who is the human person and has modern philosophy given us a truncated understanding of the person? Those are some of the questions put to…

The Peronist Pope Francis: A Conversation with Daniel Mahoney

A discussion with Daniel J. Mahoney

Pope Francis's political, social, and economic thinking has created great consternation, but he has also roused tremendous interest of Catholics and those outside the Catholic Church in his…

Rights, Duties, and the American Republic: A Conversation with Thomas West

A discussion with Thomas G. West

Thomas West, author of the new book, The Political Theory of the American Founding, joins us to talk natural rights and how they shaped our Constitution.

Cortisol and Punishment

Even before reading it, I knew in outline what the article in the June 8 New England Journal of Medicine would say. This could be seen from its title: “Heath Effects of Dramatic Societal Events—Ramifications of the Recent Presidential Election.” …
by Theodore Dalrymple
Public Meaning Trumpism

If President Trump’s indefensible and equivocating response to Charlottesville demonstrates anything, it is something of which conservatives—and originalists in particular—should have needed no reminder: Words, the vessels of truth for those burdened with this mortal coil and of political life …
by Greg Weiner
What Exactly Fuels the Anticapitalism of Pope Francis?

Trust a Jesuit to split hairs. In This Economy Kills: Pope Francis and Social Justice, the Rev. Fr. Professor Diego Alonso-Lasheras SJ of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome is quoted as saying that Evangelii Gaudium, Francis’ first …
by Helen Andrews
National Review Nods

Over at National Review, Nicole Gelinas is critical of James Damore’s memo to Google. It is disturbing that a conservative magazine like National Review should decide to publish a piece making the points that this one does. If Damore can’t …
by Mike Rappaport
Introducing Originalism: A Conversation with Ilan Wurman

Ilan Wurman joins this edition of Liberty Law Talk to discuss his new book, A Debt against the Living: An Introduction to Originalism.…
by Ilan Wurman

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