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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

by John Kitch|1 Comment

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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.

Revisiting De Jouvenel’s Ethics of Redistribution: Seventy Years On

by Garreth Bloor

De Jouvenel’s interest is always to ensure open access to the market, an institution that engenders virtue—without exalting it above human flourishing.

Competing Conceptions of Union and Ordered Liberty in The Webster-Hayne Debate

by Aaron N. Coleman

The debate reveals two incompatible visions of American constitutionalism and ordered liberty that are vital to understand today.

Fear God. Honor the Emperor. A Conversation with Robert Louis Wilken

A discussion with Robert Louis Wilken

Robert Louis Wilken discusses his new book Liberty in the Things of God.

The Economic Nationalism Agenda: A Conversation with Daniel McCarthy

A discussion with Daniel McCarthy

Daniel McCarthy makes the case for a new conservative agenda rooted in an aggressive industrial policy.

Decentralization and the Common Good: A Conversation with Andy Smarick

A discussion with Andy Smarick

Andy Smarick discusses Hayek, subsidiarity, and the principles of authentic decentralization.

Lord Liverpool & the British Tradition of Strategic Independence: A Conversation with William Anthony Hay

A discussion with William Anthony Hay

William Anthony Hay talks about Lord Liverpool's excellent statesmanship.

Fear and Loathing in the Lone Star State

A respected writer sullies his legacy with a tendentious partisan screed.
by Mark Pulliam
Everybody Counts or Nobody Does

Bosch's manliness and stoic sense of duty combine with the absence of faith to make him serve those who need him without hoping for a just order.
by Titus Techera
Good Riddance to Cultural Christianity

The problem with the Christian Right is not that it’s too Christian, but rather that it’s not Christian enough.
by James R. Rogers
Justice Kagan Recognizes Legal Meaning as the Proper Object of Interpretation

Justice Kagan often asks just the right question in statutory construction cases, and she should carry her logic over to constitutional questions as well.
by John O. McGinnis
Paul Hollander, In Memoriam

Fascinated by the Western intellectuals’ fascination with communism, Hollander was able to explain it to us.
by Lee Edwards

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