It is long past time to return to what we once believed: that true liberty cannot exist without the rule of law and a sense of a higher purpose.
Stephen Presser
Legal realists will find much here to admire, but those who hope the law can be something more than applied pragmatism, not so much.
That judges are self-consciously law makers rather than law finders simply cannot be denied: Government by Judiciary offers insight into opposing this.
F.H. Buckley has written a friendly critique of American politics, one carrying on a long tradition of outsiders seeing what we cannot.
Scruton provides timely advice to conservatives about how to defend ordered liberty.
Stephen B. Presser is the Raoul Berger Professor of Legal History Emeritus at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law, the Legal Affairs Editor of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, and the author of Law Professors: Three Centuries of Shaping American Law (West Academic, 2017), recently reviewed in these pages.