The public does not want to consider the question of what price we are, or ought to be, willing to pay to save one life, a hundred lives, a thousand lives.

Many of the problems that liberalism’s critics attribute to a political philosophy are actually the outgrowth of otherwise salutary scientific development.

The Fourteenth Amendment's terms constitutionalize certain pieces of legislation, solving the antebellum and postbellum constitutional struggles.

The UK and EU have achieved their shared ambition to remove tariffs and quotas on all goods, but the deal will have larger consequences.

Washington understood that martial strength secured independence, but republican government would require moral fortitude.

The use of "big data" threatens to erode the presumption of innocence in the name of crime prevention.

There is good reason to think that impeachment remains on the table, even after politicians leave office.

If we truly want to promote America’s common good, even more government intervention than we already have is probably not the way to do it.

It is magical thinking to believe that the United States can run large deficits indefinitely.

The bureaucrats that enforce "diversity and inclusion" are often all too happy to maximize ideological objectives at the expense of academic freedom.

A shared, underlying agreement about the dignity of the person is the gravitational center around which our polity and politics orbit.

The marketplace likely will move much faster than the court system, particularly in as dynamic an industry as technology.

The representational theory of capital offers a more nuanced understanding of what capital is, and what role it plays in economic life.

In an age of demagoguery, judges and justices—members of a highly credentialed elite dealing with complex questions—are perfect targets.