Law & Liberty

There’s too little sex and violence in Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey. And it matters. There’s too little religion and supernaturalism, too. That the anodyne Epicureanism of Nolan’s Odyssey is widely construed as Nolan “Christianizing” Homer’s story is testimony to the insipidity of much of what passes today for Christianity.

We’ll start with sex and ...

What, if anything, unites conservatives? Although the question has special urgency in the MAGA era, it is not new. It is now conventional wisdom that the American conservative movement, which coalesced in the years after World War II, was rife with internal disagreements from the very beginning. The movement’s big tent included populists and elitists, traditionalists and libe...

Originalism today is predominant yet divided. Courts regularly invoke original meaning, but originalist scholars still debate what interpretation itself requires. At the center of that division is the interpretation-construction distinction. Interpretation is the process of determining the meaning of a constitutional provision. Construction begins only when that meaning is de...

Carlton F. W. Larson’s legal brief, published in book form as

To best appreciate David Hume’s place in the history of ideas, Max Skjönsberg prescinds from Hume, the-larger-than-life character and caustic commentator on the politics of his day, and focuses on Hume, the political philosopher. Skjönsberg adopts the lens ...