The Wisdom of Our Ancestors provides signposts to conservatives worth reading, but its ambivalence about liberalism obscures the path it recommends.
James Stoner
Do we still recognize living together in peace as a common good?
Conservatives can't simply opt out of the national debate on civics education.
As impossible as it might seem that anyone could add more to the prestige of Harvard than he takes by association with its name, Harvey Mansfield has.
We need theories that can speak intelligently of the common good without abandoning our constitutional order.
Is common good constitutionalism a type of conservative jurisprudence?
Should Jacobson v. Massachusetts be reconsidered in light of new government mandates about COVID?
Is it possible that Sheen and King succeeded because they carefully eschewed partisan politics, whereas Falwell failed because he embraced it?
It is good to be reminded by After the Flight 93 Election about the seriousness of political choice and the dangers of complacency and cynicism.
Keith Whittington on how to recover the American university as a place of free inquiry and intellectual rigor.
Distinguishing public businesses from private contracts might be the best way to protect the Jack Phillipses of the future.
We are better off reviving natural rights as a useful explanation for some of our constitutional virtues, but to counteract the crisis of modernity we need to explore other explanations of our Constitution.
Peter loved the South for its devotion to family, for its faith, for its acceptance of life with all its imperfections.
Against Oliver Wendell Holmes’ cynical definition of law as “prophecies of what the courts will do in fact,” and the seemingly tamer modern definition of courts as policy-makers, Hamburger restores the common-law judge’s self-understanding that he is bound to decide according to the law of the land.