Archives for September 2018

September 28, 2018|Environmentalism, First Reformed, Paul Schrader, Secularism, violence

Mainline Radical: On Schrader’s First Reformed

Ethan Hawke in First Reformed (Image: Accusoft, Inc.).

First Reformed shows that what follows old-time religion is less a secular paradise and more a nihilism that can only be saved by grace.

September 28, 2018|Griswold v. Connecticut, Originalism, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Precedent

Originalist Rules of Precedent

by John O. McGinnis|5 Comments

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Originalism helps maintain the norm that the Court should follow precedent when there are truly enormous costs of discarding it.

September 27, 2018|501(c)(3), Free Speech, Liberal Suppression, Philip Hamburger, Regan v. Taxation with Representation of Washington

Is Section 501(c)(3) a Form of Censorship?

by Mark Pulliam|10 Comments

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Philip Hamburger's Liberal Suppression is nothing if not ambitious, but is it persuasive?

September 26, 2018|Brett Kavanaugh, Carl Schmitt, Democracy, Liberalism, Partisanship

Are We Living in Carl Schmitt’s America?

by Brian A. Smith|9 Comments

Protestors dressed as "Handmaidens" line the hallway near Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination hearing to become the next Associate Supreme Court Justice, September 3, 2018 (Patsy Lynch/MediaPunch/Alamy Stock Photos).

We should be mindful of what is lost when a politics of enmity becomes our way of life.

September 26, 2018|Adrian Pabst, alienation, Charles Sellers, division of labor, Industrial Revolution, John Milbank, Karl Polyani, specialization

Markets Aren’t the Cause of Alienation—Blame the Division of Labor

by James R. Rogers|3 Comments

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Modern levels of the division and specialization of labor cannot be “solved” without inconceivably huge economic and social dislocations.

September 26, 2018|Amanda Tyler, habeas corpus, Nonoriginalism, Originalism

Amanda Tyler and the Original Meaning of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Clause

by Mike Rappaport|3 Comments

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Nonoriginalism does not necessarily protect rights better than the alternatives: Amanda Tyler's new book on habeas corpus in wartime offers a corrective.

September 25, 2018|Christine Brasley Ford, Constitutional Law, Egalitarianism, gender, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Progressives, Whittaker Chambers

For Judge Kavanaugh, It Must Be V For Victory

by Richard M. Reinsch II|20 Comments

WASHINGTON, DC: Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

If Kavanaugh’s nomination fails, then we enter the process of interminable regime decay.

September 25, 2018|Austrian Economics, Eric Voegelin, F.A. Hayek, George Gilder, Gnosis, Ludwig von Mises

Understanding Homo Economicus in Deeper Terms

by Garreth Bloor|3 Comments

Writer and economist George Gilder

What the state-oriented economists and the market-oriented economists might both be underestimating: ideas, attitudes, moral codes, and mental disciplines.

September 25, 2018|James Madison, republican government, Socrates, Thomas Jefferson

Americans Don’t Need a Politics Cleanse

by James Wallner|5 Comments

City council meeting in Austin, Texas, February, 2016.

Abandoning politics permanently in the face of conflict precludes us from using persuasion, negotiation, and compromise to resolve our disagreements.

Preaching the American Gospel

by Glenn A. Moots

The author demonstrates the consequences of progressive social thought for mainline Protestantism: ecumenical denominations faded, evangelicals flourished.

European Law and the “Myth of English Exceptionalism”

by Michael I. Krauss

A primer on the intertwined history of civil codes and the common law.

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