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Thomas R. Martin is Jeremiah O’Connor Professor in Classics at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece and Ancient Greece.

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Restoring Religious Liberty, Reviving Political Liberty

by James Stoner
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine in Religious Studies returned from a conference at a major law school with this report: “Not all, but the majority of presenters…

Falling in Love with Social Democracy

by Fred Baumann
That a political regime cannot be sustained by principles and institutions alone is something Martha Nussbaum understands. The regime has to be supported by the sentiments of the citizens. In…

Achieving America's Peace: A Conversation with Angelo Codevilla

A discussion with Angelo M. Codevilla

Angelo Codevilla comes to Liberty Law Talk to discuss his latest book To Make and Keep Peace Among Ourselves and with All Nations. Our conversation focuses…

The Unlawful Administrative State: A Conversation with Philip Hamburger

A discussion with Philip Hamburger

The standard narrative used to justify the existence of the administrative state and thus legitimate its powers is that America in the late 19th and…

The Ascent of Originalism: A Conversation with Michael Rappaport

A discussion with Mike Rappaport

The many schools of originalism all face the same questions: does it merely perpetuate the dead hand of the past? What about the exclusion of…

The Revised Version of American Religious Freedom: A Conversation with Steven Smith

A discussion with Steven D. Smith

This next episode of Liberty Law Talk is with Steven Smith on his new book The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom. Our conversation…

Thanks for Reading

By the time this post appears, I will probably be down under. Not under the sod (I hope), but in Australia, for a couple of weeks of work and travel. From down here, though, I want to thank Richard Reinsch …
by Thomas R. Martin
Introducing Philip Hamburger as August’s Guest Blogger

I am beaming with delight to announce that Philip Hamburger, the Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at the Columbia University School of Law, will be joining Law and Liberty for the month of August as a guest blogger. …
by Thomas R. Martin
The Invasion of Iraq: The Obama Administration’s Failure to Check al-Maliki

I have been in the process of describing the evolution of my views on the Iraqi invasion. In my last post, I described how the Bush administration, through blunders, had reduced what could have been enormous net benefits from …
by Thomas R. Martin
Political Decisions Must Be “Secular”? Since When?

Hovering like a stern schoolmarm over much of our political discourse and decision-making is a sort of lurking censor, monitoring political decisions to ensure that they are based on “secular” grounds and purposes. Let us call this regulator “the secularism …
by Thomas R. Martin
Town of Greece: Springtime for Atheists—and Us All

In May some of us were waiting, with apprehension and hope, for the outcome in the Hobby Lobby case; but we were lifted with relief–and with an unexpected delight—by the Supreme Court’s decision in Town of Greece v. Galloway. …
by Thomas R. Martin

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