Right Angles

The Accidental Originalist

Felix Frankfurter’s remarkable rise and his enduring legacy in American law and politics.

Restoring the Constitution

Clarence Thomas dismantles the fiction of substantive due process.

Yesterday Once More

The Upswing proffers progressivism as the solution to our problems without examining progressivism’s role in creating those problems.

Gated Communities

How might individuals form meaningful communities of their own?

Based on a True Story

The Constitution isn't just a story. It is a founding document that sets well-defined metes and bounds to our common life.

Hundred Years’ War

Progressivism's new enemy.

Second-Class Citizens

How fair conservative professors on college campuses?

Permanent Things

Bradley C.S. Watson looks at the nature and significance of Russell Kirk's conservatism.

Two Intellectual Loves Lost

Diversity is what has made CMC a particularly rich target of opportunity for the forces now amassing on campuses nationwide. These forces dedicate themselves to promoting an even greater degree of intellectual conformity than currently exists at institutions of higher learning—not to mention a dour apartheid of “safe spaces.”

Call to Arms

Kevin Vickers and the Spirit of Liberty and Sacrifice.

A CRB discussion of Classical Liberalism and the Constitution

Limiting Government, But Not Judges

In his new book, The Classical Liberal Constitution, Richard Epstein seeks to present a “distinctive synthesis” of constitutional law that is neither progressive nor conservative.

First, Let’s Kill All the Law Schools

A review of Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America, by Walter Olson

A Plea for Positivism

A review of The Language of Law and the Foundations of American Constitutionalism, by Gary L. McDowell

The Old Race of Judges

A review of A Time to Speak: Selected Writings and Arguments , by Robert H. Bork

Behind the Veil of Ignorance

John Rawls and the American political tradition.

Books in Brief

Love’s Language Lost

Same-sex "marriage" and the right to a noun.

Up in Smoke

Defending the last undefended vice.