Indiana has emerged, once again, in the national spotlight of states willing to buck national trends and go it alone for the good of its citizens and future citizens who might take root in its borders. Already a leader in …
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This edition of Liberty Law Talk is a conversation with Vincent Cannato, author of American Passage: The History of Ellis Island, about America’s constitutional and policy history regarding immigration.
During the late recession (ended, we are reliably informed, eons ago), welfare enrollment barely budged. The rates have remained low, despite a lousy labor market. How is that possible? More proof that the heralded 1996 welfare-to-work reform worked?
Not really. …
McCraw uses the immigrant experience to explain in part the development of a national perspective (see here and here for the 1st 2 installments in this series). Being originally outsiders, immigrants could see the forest for the trees while many, …
Russ Roberts, host of the significant and highly influential podcast show, Econ Talk, interviews this week Leftist law professor Michael Seidman. Seidman, you might remember, started off 2013 with this breathless piece in the New York Times (no doubt fulfilling …
Just out: Greve’s twenty-minute diatribe on why and how just about everything we think we know about federalism turns out to be wrong (“But What Kind of Federalism?” Heritage Insider.) It’s the printed, cleaned-up version of a speech I …
This next edition of Liberty Law Talk is a discussion with John Vile about his new book, The Writing and Ratification of the U.S. Constitution: Practical Virtue in Action. Our discussion, chronologically and philosophically, retraces the dramatic story of …
This month’s Liberty Forum debate on the relationship between the inherited common law norms of liberty and our written Constitution also opens to a conversation on the comparison between civil law and common law and the degree to which each …
James Stoner’s essay on the common law and the constitution provides a very valuable perspective on our founding document. Stoner is wholly correct that the common law concepts are often essential to interpreting the Constitution. Nevertheless, I want to raise …
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