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 …
It is common to find discussions of the administrative state in the scholarly works of history, political science, law, and economics. However, it is uncommon to find a definition of the very concept — “administrative state” – being treated in …
As Mitt Romney continued his hapless class warfare rhetoric, the federal judiciary followed suit. In the most extreme post-Brown federal court opinion on equal protection ever issued, the Sixth Circuit held, in an en banc opinion, that certain unspecified …
This month’s Liberty Forum considers the ideas of the English political philosopher Michael Oakeshott. Timothy Fuller, Elizabeth Corey, and Justin Shubow evaluate Oakeshott’s contributions on the rule of law and the threats to political and individual liberty posed …
A defining theme of Michael Oakeshott’s thought is that, through the past five centuries, European civilization can count among its greatest achievements the invention of “civil association” and the clarification of the “rule of law.” These are arrangements in which …
This edition of Liberty Law Talk is a conversation with Samuel Gregg, Research Director of the Acton Institution, on his latest book, Wilhelm Röpke’s Political Economy. Röpke’s name is not frequently mentioned in the parade of great free market …
The late William Stuntz addressed a wide range of issues in The Collapse of American Criminal Justice and he indicated what he thought could be directions of salutary change. Much needs to be done, from addressing the scale and practices …
Professor Jonathon Jacobs usefully invites us to think about the “Stuntzian” politics of crime, and the true nature of democracy, in light of other features of contemporary American politics writ large. If our politics is broken when it comes …
Recently, I came across by chance a book first published in Philadelphia in 1853 which contains an account of what liberty consists in within a free society that I have found more lucid, elegant and illuminating than practically any other …
No one deserves more credit — or blame, depending on your point of view — for George Zimmerman being charged with murder than attorney Benjamin Crump. He represents the parents of the teenager Zimmerman shot dead last February in the …
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