Coping with the 14th Amendment
Changing theories of constitutional interpretation have prompted a reconsideration of the 14th Amendment.
Articles by Michael P. Zuckert
Act Naturally
Pierre Manent's latest book attempts to reestablish and revive the natural law tradition.
Strictly Liberal Construction
A review of The Supreme Court and Constitutional Democracy, by John Agresto
The Strauss Wars Revisited
A review of Straussophobia: Defending Leo Strauss and Straussians against Shadia Drury and Other Accusers, by Peter Minowitz
and Cloaked in Virtue: Unveiling Leo Strauss and the Rhetoric of American Foreign Policy, by Nicholas Xenos
Calling Liberalism’s Bluff
Anti-foundationalists have not in fact succeeded in shutting down the possibility of philosophy
The Thinking Man’s Founder
A review of James Madison and the Making of America, by Kevin R. C. Gutzman; James Madison, by Richard Brookhiser; and James Madison: A Son of Virginia and a Founder of the Nation, by Jeff Broadwater
Madison’s Avenues
A review of The Madisonian Constitution , by George Thomas
and James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government, by Colleen A. Sheehan
Confronting Dred Scott
Reflecting on Dred Scott, 150 years after that most disastrous Supreme Court decision.
Just Examples
History, natural law, and Leo Strauss.
Redeeming the Enlightenment
Gertrude Himmelfarb wishes to redeem the Enlightenment.
Father Of Our Country?
Was Winthrop America's founding father?
A More Perfect Union
D.W. Griffith, once a famous film pioneer, is remembered for just one thing today...
John Rawls, Historian
The interaction between Rawls the interpreter of past philosophy and Rawls the theorist of justice is what makes Lectures so interesting a book.
Pride and Political Philosophy
Mansfield and McWilliams are two of the most distinguished practitioners of the ancient and honorable trade of political philosophy.