Law & Liberty

By chance, I was flying home to England from Cairo on October 17 when the riots—the jacquerie—broke out in France.

Defenders of the separation of powers often understand it as purposefully obstructing or impeding government for the sake of individual rights.

Party politics emerged as a stable feature of parliamentary politics in eighteenth-century Britain.

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I was probably in the second or third grade when Lois Lowry came to speak in my elementary school.

In the late twentieth century, social conservatives and classical liberals came together under the leadership of Ronald Reagan, building a successful platform for the Republican Party.

In 1953, something truly wonderful happened, something that has not happened again and quite possibly never will.

Despite decades of debates, American conservatism remains ill-defined.

There was a time a few years back when the postliberal intellectuals were more active on X.

In his recent reflections on academic freedom and William F.

The number of civic institutes, centers, and schools at public universities has increased significantly since the first one, the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership (SCETL) at Arizona State University, emerged in 2017.

Michael Lucchese joins James Patterson to talk about his edited volume, Russell Kirk on America.

What should the principles of development policy be?

It is well known that, for decades now, Americans have been losing faith in our institutions.

Originalism’s position seems unassailable, with both a majority of Supreme Court justices pledging fidelity to some variant of the theory, and tremendous institutional backing within the conservative legal world through institutions like the Federalist So…

An intelligent, attractive former student commits a ghastly murder, reasoning that he is doing society a favor by ridding the world of a greedy capitalist.

Tom Cruise may possibly be the biggest movie star in the world.

Civics centers, teaching civic and classical education through “Western civ” and great books, are often described as conservative enterprises.

As the Democrats contemplate their next possible window of power, proposals to “pack” the Supreme Court have become mainstream.

I’m grateful to Robert P.

Since the end of the fifteenth century, seafaring explorers have searched for a westward route around the North American continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

United States Supreme Court justices have long insisted that the Establishment Clause must be understood in light of its “generating history.”

Civil society, for Locke, begins with a surrender.

President Trump’s decision to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities in the summer of 2025, after joining Israel in its “12-day war” against Iran, dramatically illustrates the executive branch’s almost single-handed capacity to initiate war.

Editor’s note: This article is a revised version of a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College’s Washington, DC, campus on April 21, 2026.

When Americans think of monuments to George Washington in Europe, Paris usually comes to mind: Daniel Chester French’s majestic equestrian statue, presented by the Daughters of the American Revolution as a tribute to France’s indispensable role in securing

When he was four years old, my middle son taught himself to read.

Frederick Douglass didn’t just ask Americans to honor their Constitution.

In a world in which grade inflation is rampant on college and university campuses, it is more than a little amusing to see that the nonpartisan Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) recently awarded to the two highest-ranked institutions…

In his preface to the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of God and Man at Yale, William F.

Americans have a lot of misconceptions about the rich.

Richard Reinsch joins James Patterson to discuss The Civitas Collection 250, the way in which the Declaration is like a “fine blended scotch,” and how civics centers across the nation are making rich conversations like this more possible.

There are two kinds of love of country, Alexis de Tocqueville observed in Democracy in America.

Every child has a right to grow up without fear of gunshots at their door.

The phrase “humans in the loop” has that made-in-a-(frontier)-lab sound to it, language manufactured to soothe anxiety about artificial intelligence without specifying what the loop is and where we might still fit.

In every era, we can find conservatives complaining that their movement, along with the Republican leadership, is too timid and unwilling to fight for constituents.

When Jeffrey Rosen was the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, he would open events in the Center’s stunning Great Hall Overlook by asking the audience to pause and look out the windows.

Anyone who appreciates political ideas and music will open Martha Nussbaum’s The Republic of Love with a twinge of envy.

The 25-year-old William F.

Even the federal fiscal year gets a farewell party in Washington.

As someone who began researching Blessed Archbishop Fulton J.

A friend of mine was once mayor of a small city, about forty thousand souls.

A well-known scene in Monty Python’s Life of Brian can tell us something about how populism works.

Steven B.

Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas is remarkable in many ways.

“Once you sink that first stake,” the ur-developer Robert Moses liked to say, “they’ll never make you pull it up.”

It’s been a rough end to summer for a whole bunch of mainstream progressive narratives.

The dialectical battle between traditionalists and lovers of liberty has given us brilliant debates over the past few centuries, but also countless missed opportunities.

A liberal state does not distribute privileges or impose burdens according to popularity.

Since the early days of the American Republic, political parties have been vehicles through which people of modest means can participate effectively in politics.