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William J. Haun is a lawyer in Washington, D.C.

September 18, 2017|Alexander Bickel, Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, Free Speech, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Snyder v. Phelps

The Natural Law of Free Speech

The Supreme Court

With Progressives increasingly condoning censorship of conservative views as “hate speech,” conservatives are responding with an increasingly absolutist freedom of speech.

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.

Greta Gerwig and the Art of Return

Gerwig's characters are real, human girls who must wrestle with the tension between their ambitions and their givenness, their futures and their pasts.
by Rachel K. Alexander
Mystic Timber

As an epic vision of reality, Karl Marlantes’s Deep River takes up the enduring cultural theme of primitivism.
by Lee Oser
The Times Reveals Its Priorities

The Times is doubling down on the policies and cultural attitudes that led to the improbable victory of Donald Trump.
by John O. McGinnis
Remembering Roger Scruton

Law & Liberty contributors offer their reflections on the man and his achievements.
by Law & Liberty Editors
The Last Gentleman of the English-Speaking World

Where many conservatives speak sentimentally of Western Civilization, Roger Scruton sought to know and justify it by the highest standards of philosophers.
by Titus Techera

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