Let us give thanks that our Constitution was not designed by devotees of game theory.
David Lewis Schaefer
The great Enlightenment thinker can offer insights into the last election.
Often, the proper scope of the First Amendment can be determined only by considering both text and context.
Progressives gripe endlessly about the Constitution’s flaws. But their speculations about perfect democracy will never rival the Framers’ enduring wisdom.
The University of Chicago has long been considered America’s model when it comes to the freedom of inquiry.
Balkin wants judges, guided by scholars like him, to feel free to interpret the Constitution on the basis of their views of “political tradition."
The rights revolution has led to a deep distrust of human authority in even its most benign form.
Jeffrey Rosen fails to address the differences between the Founders’ understanding of virtues and the ancients’.
Black Americans came to know and benefit from the legal system even during periods of enslavement and segregation.
What should Americans learn from Chinese rulers' belief that that government can effectively "manage" an entire economy?
Juliana Geran Pilon recounts the Jewish experience in American life, liberalism, and the political left.
The portrayal of widespread poverty and economic inequality is a distortion of statistics by economists inside and outside the government.
Democracy has always been difficult, but a third political party is not what America needs.
Piketty wants to build a state strong enough to promote equality at the expense of liberty.
Is identity politics now our real national pastime?
The causes of failure in America’s public education system are several and are widely known, but public school defenders refuse to take note of them.
Gratitude for the privileges that American citizenship bestows, and for those who made those privileges and their extension possible is in short supply.
Rawls’s teaching has served only to erode the true foundations of political freedom and of conventional, “bourgeois” morality.
Unpunished violence in the streets does real harm to the rule of law, and yet the media looks away.
There is a quasi-religious ideology underlying the non-falsifiable global-warming hysteria.
America's principles can be sustained only through the existence of an independent nation-state, whose citizens enjoy the responsibility to preserve them.
Education activists are now associating standards of good writing with “white supremacy.” This is a truly racist claim.
In America's past year of violence, we have witnessed something like a microcosm of the chaotic situation that existed in Russia in 1917.
The institutions of political and individual freedom that the American founders established on these shores are Locke's most lasting legacy.
BLM's intellectual makeup owes more to Marx and Machiavelli than the civil rights movement.
Markovits alternates between acknowledging the opportunity for advancement for all and claiming that the system enables only “the rich” to win.