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May 8, 2019|

A New Birth of Intellectual Freedom on the Right

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In response to: What Went Wrong (and Right) with Conservative Philanthropy

Before Trump, conservative orthodoxy ruled right-of-center philanthropy. It now needs an agenda based on what gave rise to his presidency.

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by John P. Walters

A new job for conservative nonprofits is bringing our miseducated college students (especially those who attend elite schools) together with good teachers.

John Locke and Political Hebraism

by David Conway

Locke published the Two Treatises as a moral justification of violent resistance against tyranny—and the Hebrew Bible was vital to this endeavor.

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The Victorians looked down on him. Because of William Anthony Hay’s fine biography, we have no excuse to follow suit.

Hijacking Liberalism: Spencer's The Man Versus the State

by Alberto Mingardi

At best, scholars often view Spencer as a magnificent dinosaur, at worst a grumpy phantom of Christmas past—this is a mistake.

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.

Politics as War: A Conversation with David Davenport

A discussion with David Davenport

David Davenport discusses how we lost "the cool, deliberate sense of the community" in making public policy and embraced the war metaphor.

Why Higher Education Is a Cartel: A Conversation with Todd Zywicki

A discussion with Todd Zywicki

Todd Zywicki joins this episode to discuss the bad economics and perverse regulatory framework of higher education.

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.

In Defense of the Supreme Court’s First Constitutional Law Decision

When the Constitution was written and ratified there was no free-floating principle of sovereign immunity, but now the Supreme Court has recognized one.
by Scott Gerber
McClay’s Master Work: A History for Citizens

Finally, a narrative account of the United States for students that comprehends the flaws, but also the greatness, of a self-governing nation.
by Ted McAllister
The Liberal Sciences and the Lost Arts of Learning

The thrust of the St. John’s program is that final knowledge, while it is held to exist and must be pursued, cannot be possessed.
by Brent Orrell
How the Framers Embraced Conventional Rules and Avoided Substantive Intent

In the Bank debate, the consensus of the Framers coalesced against use of the substantive intent of the Philadelphia convention.
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A Strict Separationist Speaks

Separationism's decline began some 40 years ago, in response to ecumenicalism, social welfare legislation, and the rehabilitation of the Catholic Church.
by Mark David Hall

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