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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.

Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

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.

Market-Driven Health Care Is Worth the Effort

While challenging politically, the payoff—better medical care at much lower costs—is too substantial to abandon for a lower-performing alternative.
by James C. Capretta
Opioid Litigation Is not the Cure for the Disease

This unchecked mass tort deal making has bulldozed legal process into a forum for mass settlements at the cost of legitimacy.
by Margaret A. Little
The Hubris of “The Anthropocene”

Words like “catastrophic,” and “irreversible” dominate the discourse about humanity’s impact on global ecosystems. We should ask why.
by Paul Schwennesen
America’s Governing Philosophy Is Rawlsian, not Hayekian

Holding up Hayek for abuse allows both right and left postliberals to substitute ideological argument for data and analysis of specific policies.
by James R. Rogers
Our Exhausted Age

We’ve come to fear not chaos and disaster at the hands of our leaders, but simply failure and sclerosis.
by Nathaniel Peters

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