Freedom is a complicated idea. Since we can talk about liberty in the positive and the…
Category: Law
Birds, Bees, and Bible Verses
The Church has a sex problem. David Ayers, professor of Sociology at Grove City College, is…
Searching for Fathers in America
Al Pacino won his Oscar for Scent of a Woman, Martin Brest’s 1992 adaptation of an…
A National Thanksgiving: President Washington and America’s National Holiday
Editor’s note: This essay originally appeared on Thanksgiving Day, 2014. Thanksgiving is a peculiar holiday, at…
The Flaws of Ranked Choice
In a Law and Liberty essay last month, George Hawley opines in favor of Ranked Choice…
Hippocrates Among the Intellectuals
As the saying goes, the practice of anesthesia is ninety percent sheer boredom and ten percent…
The Fragile Presumption of Innocence
This month, in two jurisdictions where I’ve previously practised, there have been attacks on the presumption…
Constitutional Interpretation and the Brooding Omnipresence
True to its name, the “brooding omnipresence” of the federal common law looms large over Michael…
Warfare Unmanned
On November 3, 2002, an unmanned U.S. Predator drone fired a Hellfire missile at an automobile…
Bored Out of Our Minds
You will not be bored reading Kevin Hood Gary’s Why Boredom Matters: Education, Leisure, and the…