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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.

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.

Ken Kersch’s Conservatives and the Constitution: A Law & Liberty Symposium

Kersch's book recounts the debates that helped shape the narrative of conservative constitutionalism.
by Law & Liberty Editors
A Learned but Dismissive Take on Conservative Constitutionalism

It is disheartening to realize that the academic Left can’t conceive of conservative constitutionalism as reasonable or intellectually defensible.
by Vincent Phillip Muñoz
Originalists Were Always for (Some) Judicial Engagement

The tendency toward a firm enforcement of the Constitution’s structural provisions was built into conservative constitutionalism from the beginning.
by Sean Beienburg
Conservative Constitutionalism beyond Originalism

Ken Kersch draws on capacious understandings of the Constitution that are not well known outside of what became the Christian right.
by George Thomas
Mapping the Terrain of Conservative Constitutionalism

The cause of the Founders has been hitched to those strains of conservatism that have long been aching for a twilight struggle and a Holy War.
by Ken I. Kersch

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