Nixon’s election was traumatic for the establishment because he was not one of them.

Fukuyama stayed too much within the parameters of modern thoughts and hopes, unwilling to step outside them to take their measure.

Francis Fukuyama made the philosophy of history relevant again. Thirty years on, how does his most famous book hold up?

Will Title IX’s next fifty years be the best of times or the worst of times for women’s equality?

One precondition for restoring the originalist constitutional culture is convincing progressives of the merits of federalism.

Our administrative state's ills cannot be treated with homespun remedies.

The most severe maladies afflicting our administrative state today are those of executive unilateralism and regulated parties’ fears of retaliation.

We have more to learn from Rawls the man than Rawls the theorist.

Rawls’s teaching has served only to erode the true foundations of political freedom and of conventional, “bourgeois” morality.

While enduring the tribulations of sectarian Liberalism, Catholics must have an alternative vision that prioritizes liberty on natural law grounds.

The American Founding's realism about the fallen world might be something St. Thomas would recognize.

Murray knew that the reduction of idea of democracy to a set of functions and institutions would be the death of democracy.

One way or another, we must order our common life in accord with a consensus about what makes men happy.

Assessing Fr. John Courtney Murray's We Hold These Truths at 60.