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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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How to Alienate Friends and Lose Influence

by David Conway
During the acrimonious decades of the Cold War, countries could be divided into three groups: those aligned with the United States; those aligned with the Soviet Union; and those aligned…

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…

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.

The Fiery Patrick Henry

In 1775, a 36-year-old named Patrick Henry swung the balance of the Second Virginia Convention with these words: Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so …
by Mark David Hall, Emily-Lynn Warren
The Redistributions and Distortions of the Health Care Market

A while back I talked about the health care and health insurance market and how it is the result of tremendous government regulation. There are portions that involve competition, but they are limited by a variety of matters, including large …
by Mike Rappaport
The Business End of Transnational Progressivism

According to John Fonte, “transnationalism is a concept that provides elites with both an empirical tool (a plausible analysis of what is) and an ideological framework (a vision of what should be).” What is, is humanity divided into groups along …
by Paul Seaton
Can We Remember Well?

Perhaps, amid the profound divisions revealed by the national conversation over Confederate monuments, consensus could emerge over this: If their removal is justified, it should be carried out in the light of day. …
by Greg Weiner
The Constitution Permits People to Exercise Two Rights at the Same Time

The ACLU has decided to not to defend the First Amendment rights of those who carry firearms to their protests. This decision betrays its historical commitment to protecting the free speech rights of all. First, people do not lose one …
by John O. McGinnis

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