If globalization becomes a defining issue for different camps of conservatives, it’s difficult to see the continuation of the American conservative coalition.

As an academic, I have worked in various fields, but my dominant passion has been the libertarian pursuit of free markets and freedom under the law. In recent years, I have focused mainly on constitutional originalism. At the University of San Diego, I am the Director of the Center for the Study of Constitutionalism and have a book coming out next year from Harvard, Originalism and the Good Constitution (co-authored with John McGinnis), which presents a new defense of originalism.

The rise of the textile industry did not of course single-handedly transform traditional family life, but it could not help but disrupt traditions.