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.
James Stoner
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.
James R. Stoner, Jr. (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1987) is the Hermann Moyse, Jr. Professor and Director of the Eric Voegelin Institute in the Department of Political Science at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism (Kansas, 2003) and Common Law and Liberal Theory: Coke, Hobbes, and the Origins of American Constitutionalism (Kansas, 1992).