Nicholas Eberstadt comes to Liberty Law Talk this month to discuss his significant new book, A Nation of Takers: America’s Entitlement Epidemic. Our conversation focuses on the staggering data of our transfer payment state and how it is inevitably …
Looming over politics in 2012 was Franklin Roosevelt’s admonition in his Second Bill of Rights speech (his 1944 State of the Union Address) for the creation of security. To revive its founding, the government must guarantee various now-fundamental rights including …
The U.S. Constitution mandates that the executive branch will seek the “advice and consent” of the Senate to treaties with foreign powers. Thus, George Washington as President once determined to “advise and consult” with the Senate on a treaty matter …
If something can’t go on forever, Herb Stein instructed us, it won’t. The relief that bad arrangements will not get eternally worse yields once more to alarm, however, when we contemplate how they will stop going on forever. With ample …
“The bizarre disappearance of the Hebrew Bible from political philosophy and ethics”
One of the more bizarre, intellectual occurrences in the Wissenschaften of the Occident has been the disappearance of the Hebrew Bible from politics, political philosophy, and …
In my previous post, I noted that the distinction between a tax and a regulation was well understood by the American revolutionaries. The distinction had to do with the purpose of the law. A tax was a law that …
In the spring of 1971, Robert Bork visited the University of Indiana law school to give a lecture on constitutional interpretation and the First Amendment. Bork was still a professor in those days, at Yale. And despite that association, he …
Beneath the variegated opinions on health care issued by a divided Supreme Court, a shared subplot lurks: the strange and contentious fate of broccoli in a free republic. The conservative justices utilized the specter of a broccoli mandate to argue …
Congress as an institution seems deeply troubled, if not doomed. Public confidence in the institution has fallen to historic lows, at least in the history of mass polling. Meanwhile, its institutional rivals – the president and the courts – remain …
This edition of Liberty Law Talk is a conversation with Ronald Pestritto on Progressivism’s transformation of the Constitution. Pestritto, a noted author on Progressivism and its intellectual origins, discusses the philosophical, political, and religious composition of the Progressive movement and how it has shaped our “Living Constitution.”
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