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Craig S. Lerner is Professor of Law at the Antonin Scalia Law School.

January 2, 2020|Craig Lerner, Criminal Punishment, Death Penalty

Liberalism and the Death Penalty

Craig Lerner discusses the political, philosophical, and moral implications of the death penalty.

February 12, 2019|Angela Merkel, asylum, Donald Trump, European Union, Hungary, Sale v. Haitian Centers Council, Scott Morrison, Viktor Orban

The Reality and Rhetoric of Denying Asylum

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What is most distinctive about Orbán and Trump is not their policies with respect to asylum seekers but their accompanying rhetoric.

Conservative Nationalism and American Statecraft

A discussion with Colin Dueck

Colin Dueck discusses his new book, Age of Iron, with Richard Reinsch

Liberalism and the Death Penalty

A discussion with Craig S. Lerner

Craig Lerner discusses the political, philosophical, and moral implications of the death penalty.

Planning the Great Society

A discussion with Amity Shlaes

Is it true what they say about planning and centralized government power?

The Populist Presidency vs. The Founders' Presidency

A discussion with Stephen F. Knott

Stephen Knott discusses the immense revolution in power that has remade the American presidency over the past century.

An Anxious Fiscal Future

To salvage their generational legacy, Boomers need to exercise political leadership one last time and reform entitlements.
by Rachel Lu
The Wayfaring Soldiers of 1917

This is a war going on until only one man stands, the viewer is reminded at the end.
by Graham McAleer
Inequality and the French Pension Strikers

People may be blind to their country’s long-term interests but they are seldom blind to their own short-term interests.
by Theodore Dalrymple
Howard Zinn: Fake Historian

Zinn had a different project in mind than most historians. As he wrote, history is “not about understanding the past,” but about “changing the future."
by Ronald Radosh
The Inadequacy of State Capacity Libertarianism

Modern libertarianism has too narrow a view of social harm and too limited a role for government in encouraging mediating institutions that ameliorate it.
by John O. McGinnis

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