Alexis De Tocequeville

March 8, 2019|Alexis De Tocequeville, Emmanuel Macron, EU, Minimum Wage, Nationalism, unemployment

Macron’s Attack on Nationalism Underscores Its Virtues

French President Emmanuel Macron arrives at an EU leadership summit in Brussels, Belgium, November 25, 2018 (Alexandros Michailidis / Shutterstock.com).

This is the lesson of Brexit Macron has not learned: the drive for more European centralization will arouse nationalist passions that could end the EU.

January 8, 2019|Alexis De Tocequeville, Conservatism, culture, Facebook, Gouverneur Morris, Originalism

Culture’s Challenge to Constitutionalism

by John O. McGinnis|4 Comments

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Constitutional legalism is no panacea, but it is the best we lawyers can do.

August 31, 2018|Alexis de, Alexis De Tocequeville, Catholic Church, Mediating Institutions, Private Schools, Robert Delahunty, Robert George, scandals

Modern Mediating Institutions Need Greater Transparency

by John O. McGinnis|11 Comments

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Many mediating institutions are in trouble today, beset by scandal from within and harassed by the state from without: but how to help them?

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.

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