Harry Clor Subscribe

Harry Clor is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Kenyon College. He taught courses on American constitutional law, political philosophy, and legal theory. He is the author, most recently, of On Moderation: Defending an Ancient Virtue in a Modern World (Baylor University Press, 2008).

August 10, 2015|Moral Man and Immoral Society, Reinhold Niebuhr, Soren Kierkegaard

Reinhold Niebuhr, Christian Democratic Realist

by Harry Clor|3 Comments

Is there an irreconcilable disparity between authentic Christian faith and hard-boiled political realism? Common sense seems to require an unequivocal “yes”—one is so different from the other as to preclude any coherent combination of them. Yet we can find such a combination, or a significant approximation of it, in the philosophy of Reinhold Niebuhr. And that is what makes him an intriguing thinker and commentator on public affairs. Much of Niebuhr’s extensive writing, newly collected by the Library of America, is focused upon the role and limits of morality in politics, especially international politics. He is critical of “realists” who would…

March 2, 2015|Aristotle, John Locke, Pledge of Allegiance, The New Testament, The U.S. Constitution, Walter Berns

The Political Thought of Walter Berns

by Harry Clor|1 Comment

Walter Berns should have an influence among future students, teachers, and devotees of American constitutional democracy.

Reconsidering the Sources of American Liberty

by Tony Williams

Wormersley's volume addresses the sources of American Revolution and how those ideas fashioned American understandings of liberty.

Just Before the Return of the Strong Gods: On Charles Péguy’s Temporal and Eternal

by James Matthew Wilson

Nature hates a vacuum, and if modern civic life does not fill itself with a range of sound mystiques, others, more dark, will make an entrance.

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.

Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution

A discussion with Greg Weiner

Greg Weiner discusses the difference between the political constitution and the judicial constitution.

Managing Whiteshift

A discussion with Eric Kaufmann

A discussion with Eric Kaufmann about white majorities and the future of politics in western democracies.

Brexit Shenanigans and the Old English Constitution

A discussion with Helen Dale

Helen Dale discusses Brexit, the English Constitution, and the future of British politics.

Art’s Establishment

The contention that non-profit management and government funding expands the arts is hardly defensible.
by Graham McAleer
The Iron Lady Alone

Charles Moore has written a splendid conclusion to his life of Margaret Thatcher.
by John O. McGinnis
Constitutional Change Made Easy, UK Edition

Did the flexibility of the UK's unwritten constitution facilitate changes that have made governing almost impossible?
by Abram N. Shulsky
Why Economic Nationalism Fails

If the principle of national sovereignty is incompatible with the policies of economic nationalism, national conservatives have a problem.
by Dylan Pahman
Brexit Panto

Billed as the most significant election since Clement Attlee’s 1945 Labour landslide, the outcome will determine whether Brexit happens at all.
by Helen Dale

Law & Liberty’s focus is on the classical liberal tradition of law and political thought and how it shapes a society of free and responsible persons. This site brings together serious debate, commentary, essays, book reviews, interviews, and educational material in a commitment to the first principles of law in a free society. Law & Liberty considers a range of foundational and contemporary legal issues, legal philosophy, and pedagogy.

The opinions expressed on Law & Liberty are solely those of the contributors to the site and do not reflect the opinions of Liberty Fund.

Harry Clor Subscribe

About