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.

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.

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