Judicial Temperament

October 4, 2018|Alexis de Tocqueville, Aristotle, Edmund Burke, James Wilson, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Judicial Temperament

Kavanaugh’s Way: A Response to Greg Weiner

by Geoffrey Vaughan|17 Comments

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27: Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies to the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Lifting the presumption of innocence leaves each of us on a knife’s edge, as it has Judge Kavanaugh.

October 4, 2018|Ford, Judicial Temperament, Kavanaugh, Withrow v. Larkin

Judge Kavanaugh’s Judicial Temperament

by Mike Rappaport|17 Comments

Judge Brett Kavanaugh sworn in during his Senate confirmation hearing, Washington, DC, United States, Sept. 4, 2018. (Credit: Ting Shen/Xinhua/Alamy Stock Images).

Listen to the Supreme Court: Judge Kavanaugh’s behavior before the committee is no reason to vote against his confirmation.

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.

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.

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.

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