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Peter H. Schuck is the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law Emeritus at Yale University. He is the author or editor of many books, including Agent Orange on Trial, Meditations of a Militant Moderate, Diversity in America, and Understanding America. Before joining the Yale faculty, he was an official in the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

January 16, 2018|Campaign Finance, Immigration, One Nation Undecided, Poverty, Racial Preferences, Religious Freedom

Debating the Thorniest Issues: A Conversation with Peter Schuck

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Debating Poverty, Immigration, Racial Preferences, Campaign Finance, and Religious Freedom with Peter Schuck, author of One Nation Undecided.

March 3, 2015|Administrative State, Federal bureaucracy, Public Choice, Why Government Fails So Often

The Dismal Performance in Federal Policy-Making: A Discussion with Peter Schuck

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Peter Schuck comes to Liberty Law Talk to discuss Why Government Fails So Often. Like James Buckley and John DiIulio, Schuck doesn’t have much good news for the large majority of Americans who are disgusted with the performance of the federal government and its ability to devise and execute policies. Schuck notes that in April 2013, only 28% of Americans had a favorable opinion of the federal government. Many have tried to explain this phenomenon with various government affirming answers, but Schuck is forthright in the book and this interview when he states that the best answer is that the…

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.

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
Luther and Liberalism

The roots of Western liberalism both precede, and go far deeper, than Martin Luther and his influence.
by James R. Rogers
De Gaulle’s Alternative for Europe

Attempts to distance peoples completely from their national cultures were bound to produce unpredictable consequences.
by Samuel Gregg

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