Escaping Our Ship of Fools
Carlson has a serious point: How should the nation’s various maladies be addressed by our political system?
Contracts and Solemnities in Adam Smith’s Sacred Anthropology
For Smith, commerce is not about consenting to contracts but individuals surfing waters highly charged with solemnities of ritual, trust, and reverence.
Children, Consent, and Liberalism
In By Birth or Consent, historian Holly Brewer does nothing less than trace the evolution of the central postulate of liberalism from theory to practice.
Will the Right to Bear Arms Become a “Constitutional Orphan”?
After nearly a decade rejecting Second Amendment cases, the Supreme Court has just agreed to hear New York Rifle & Pistol Association v. City of New York.
James Madison: A Great Political Theorist, But Not A Great Lawyer
For all his contributions to the convention, Madison was not put on the Committee on Detail that provided the penultimate draft of our fundamental law.
Means-Tested Welfare and the Disincentive to Work
Means tested government programs with high implicit marginal tax rates are bad public policy.
Solzhenitsyn in Exile
Solzhenitsyn had become, as the foreign policy analysts say, an existential threat to the Soviet Union. He had to be expelled.
The Crumbling Anti-Politics of Constitutional Patriotism
The Kantian dream of undoing real nations keeps foundering on the shoals of human nature's need for real attachments to place.
“Slouching Towards Mar-a-Lago:” A Conversation with Andrew Bacevich
Andrew Bacevich discusses his new book Twilight of the American Century
The Dark Individualism of Watchmen
There are limits to self-delusion for a free people, and Snyder's Watchmen ruthlessly probes them.
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