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John Kitch is an Instructor in the Political Science Department at Northern Illinois University.

April 18, 2018|Bureaucracy, cyber warfare, Military, Rosa Brooks, Rule of Law

Blurred Lines in Contemporary Warfare

A U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton surveillance drone at NAS Jacksonville, October 26, 2014 (Michael Fitzsimmons / Shutterstock.com).

There seems to be an inevitable erosion of limits to military power in the United States, and Rosa Brooks helps us understand how this happened.

February 2, 2018|Civil Religion, football

Football as American Civic Religion

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Football is a key ritual in the nation’s civic religion and the best and worst aspects of its impact on the country’s cultural landscape flow from this.

The Logos of Western Civilization: A Conversation with Sam Gregg

A discussion with Samuel Gregg

Sam Gregg explores how the West is built on the union of the God of the Philosophers and the God of the Bible.

The Politics of Judicial Review: A Conversation with Keith Whittington

A discussion with Keith Whittington

Keith Whittington discusses his reassessment of judicial review in his new book Repugnant Laws

Liberalism as Armed Doctrine: A Conversation with Philip Hamburger

A discussion with Philip Hamburger

Philip Hamburger joins us to discuss his new book Liberal Suppression

The Delusions of the Ideologue and the Wisdom of the Statesman: A Conversation with Greg Weiner

A discussion with Greg Weiner

Greg Weiner returns to Liberty Law Talk to discuss what it means to be an Old Whig.

His Russia Collusion Was More than Evident

A life of the late David Karr—Daily Worker writer, film producer, confidante of columnists, acquaintance of U.S. Presidents . . . and asset of the KGB.
by Mark Hemingway
Paul Cantor and the Dark Side of the American Dream

Cantor explores the dangers of individualism: apathy and violence; the yearning for success at any cost; and the ongoing failure of confidence in America.
by Titus Techera
Silent Originalism and the Reweighting of Precedent

The Court’s recent gerrymandering decision recognized Reynolds v. Sims as so flawed in its reasoning as not to deserve mention.
by John O. McGinnis
On the Road with Robert Kaplan

We must understand both the can-do spirit of America and the restraints imposed by the realities of a harsh landscape that won’t yield to mere optimism.
by Scott A. Silverstone
Assessing the Faith-Friendly Colleges

Could it be that their purported improvement on this score is just more “bad religion” of the kind that Ross Douthat described?
by Joseph Knippenberg

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