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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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Instead, We Played Music

by Robert Reilly
Reflecting on waning American influence in his country as shown by a recent poll, German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble sarcastically said: “Perhaps now more of those in power in the…

Command or Persuasion?

by Jeremy Bailey
In 1989, Harvey Mansfield’s Taming the Prince made the untimely argument that the President’s formal power under the Constitution matters. It was untimely because most political scientists who studied the…

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…

Herbert Hoover's Righteous Crusade Against the New Deal: A Conversation with George Nash

A discussion with George H. Nash

Herbert Hoover's legacy is perhaps forever linked with the failure of the American economy under his presidency after the stock market crash of 1929 and…

The Thirteenth Amendment as a Conservative Counterrevolution

Passage of the Thirteenth Amendment In “If Slavery Is Not Wrong, Nothing Is Wrong,” I proposed that the Civil War was fought to restore the original unity of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and that the Thirteenth …
by Thomas R. Martin
Where are Special Interests When You Need Them? The Problem of Unwanted Phone Calls

One problem with the political decisions, including those in a democracy, is the importance of special interests. Special or politically concentrated interests have an advantage in the political process and therefore are able to obtain special privileges and advantages that …
by Thomas R. Martin
Penseurs Extraordinaires

A friend over at the NRO’s Postmodern Conservative recently asked which contemporary French authors might profitably be read by American conservatives. As a Francophone who has translated French philosophers from this and previous centuries, I thought I’d contribute my two …
by Thomas R. Martin
Eleven Propositions that Sum to Zero

Over the weekend Elizabeth Warren, the Senator from Massachusetts and a former professor at Harvard Law School, outlined eleven propositions, dubbed by the National Journal as “eleven commandments” for progressives. Warren is a very bright leader of today’s progressivism. …
by Thomas R. Martin
Post-Hobby Lobby Illusions

My late leader of days long gone, the first Mayor Daley of Chicago, once poured out his heart about life in the political arena: “I have been vilified, I have been crucified, I have been ….criticized!” Well, I haven’t been …
by Thomas R. Martin

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