In the late twentieth century, social conservatives and classical liberals came together under the leadership of Ronald Reagan, building a successful platform for the Republican Party. Though he did ...

Conservatives have more to offer the cause of freedom than the defunct paradigm of postwar liberalism. Despite decades of debates, American conservatism remains ill-defined. Throughout the movement’s ...

Stephanie Slade's re-articulation of fusionist principles gives lovers of freedom an opportunity to rally. There was a time a few years back when the postliberal intellectuals were more active on X.

National Treasure may seem cheesy and even a bit absurd, but beneath the surface it has a valuable message about the meaning of patriotism.

The number of civic institutes, centers, and schools at public universities has increased significantly since the first one, the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership (SCETL) at Arizona ...

Welcome to the Law & Liberty Podcast. I’m your host, James Patterson. Law & Liberty is an online magazine featuring serious commentary on law, policy, books, and culture informed by a commitment to a ...

Institutions help us make sense of change; without them the AI revolution could be especially disruptive. It is well known that, for decades now, Americans have been losing faith in our institutions.

The Founders’ constitutional morality demands more than mechanical checks and balances. Editor’s note: This article is a revised version of a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College’s Washington, DC, ...

Stephen Bowd and Alexander Lee seek to restore Machiavelli’s name, if not among heroes, at least among the literary and political greats. Any effort to briefly summarize Machiavelli’s political and ...

A new intellectual history of liberalism lays bare the ideology’s theological foundations. Which story we tell about liberalism is a fraught and consequential choice. A common version, peddled by ...

He was remarkably frank about how little modern Aristotelians can truly explain. This is the second essay in a symposium on the common good. You can read the first essay by John Grove here, and you ...

Gorsuch’s concurrence in Trump v. Slaughter may hold the key to the future of separation of powers jurisprudence. In Trump v. Slaughter, Justice Neil Gorsuch voted with the majority to rule that since ...