Where Law Would Be King
There are moments within traditions of thought when the pressure of events breaks apart ideas and ways of thinking that had subsisted for ages in relative harmony. These moments, often called tipping...
View ArticleA Magna Carta that Might Have Been
Among the unsung, or rarely sung heroes of the American Revolution is John Dickinson. Of the many reasons for this neglect, none is perhaps more pertinent than his refusal to put his signature to the...
View Article250 Years of Jeffersonian Constitutionalism
Thomas Jefferson’s Summary View of the Rights of British America, composed sometime in the latter half of this month, 250 years ago, ought to be regarded as among the most fundamental primary sources...
View ArticleThe Constitutional History of the Boston Tea Party
December 16, 2023 will mark the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. That event saw three bands of fifty men, loosely disguised as Mohawk warriors, proceed to board three tea ships of the East...
View ArticleHopelessness in the New History
In May, Law & Liberty ran a forum debate on the nature of modern socialist thought. Prominent among the criticisms raised are points applicable to current leftist ideology overall: its...
View ArticleEuropean Social Democracy Isn’t What You Think It Is
Werner Sombart, the great socialist interlocutor of the equally brilliant liberal sociologist Max Weber, once remarked that socialism would never work in America so long as the allure of abundance...
View ArticleThe America the New York Times Wants
From the very beginning of the country, there has been disagreement about the meaning of America, but not until fairly recently in our history have there been outright calls for actually changing the...
View ArticleSlavery Gave Us Double-Entry Bookkeeping?
Editor’s Note: This essay is part of a Law & Liberty symposium on the 1619 Project. How many types of capitalism are there? If one wants to play semantic games, I suppose there are as many as...
View ArticleIdeology or Psychology?
About halfway through Monday’s broadcast of the PBS News Hour, I was fascinated to see that one of the speakers presented as an expert on mass violence was none other than an intellectual historian,...
View ArticleOpening Room to Negotiate?
Everyone would like a world of perpetual peace. Well, not everyone, and that is precisely why it will require more than attention to just our economic but also our political natures. Ironically, one...
View ArticleIs Liberty “Natural”?
For our Founders and most of the enlightened thinkers of the late 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, liberty was most definitely thought to be a natural and moral principle grounded in the nature of...
View ArticleMoral Language and Time Preferences: Assessing the Great Libertarian Lacuna
William Ruger and Jason Sorens have identified a lacuna in both thought and rhetoric in the current conceptualization of individual freedom on the part of libertarians: an inability or perhaps...
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The Currency of Destruction
When Gary Becker put forward his idea of human capital in 1964, it was to address the effects of knowledge and training on individual economic performance. This idea can and should be extended to...
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Towards a Global Dystopia
There is a great and dangerous Trust seeking to form globally. Like any monopoly in days past, or OPEC now, its aim is profit. But its means are far more sinister, and potentially far more effective,...
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Can Scotland Govern Itself?
Editor’s Note: This excellent post by Hans Eicholz on the need for the Scots to recover their former capitalist and free society enthusiasms if they are to govern themselves is worthy of...
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Slavery Gave Us Double-Entry Bookkeeping?
Photo of a page from The cotton plantation record and account book, no. 1. Suitable for a force of 40 hands, or under by Thomas Affleck, 5th ed. 1854. Redefining historical facts and concepts for...
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Ideology or Psychology?
Police shut down the area around the Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso, Texas, after the mass shooting that took place there on August 3. (shutterstock.com)Eagerness to seize upon the ideas of the killers is...
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Opening Room to Negotiate?
Former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2014. (Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.com)Is it possible that President Trump is...
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Sit Hamilton, Sit! Now Stay! Good Hamilton.
In response to: Debating Alexander Hamilton’s Case for American Manufacturing Greatness Operating a specific enterprise, whatever its aim or product, requires focusing on measurable quantities of...
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