2+ hour, 46+ min ago  (663+ words) The freedom to grow rich is a right for all, and the State does not have the duty to enrich anyone, but rather to leave everyone the freedom to enrich themselves through their labor and industry. Openness as a Catalyst…...

2+ hour, 45+ min ago  (226+ words) Editor's Note: This is the second essay in a symposium on the book The Case for American Power. You can read the first essay here. Vesting the executive power in a president was what the Founders borrowed from autocracy; and…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (350+ words) And yet," writes Altman, at the United Nations, Jews became the "violators of human rights." How can this be? This moral inversion'where does it come from?" But even the biggest lies may succumb to their own paradox: in their strength…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (396+ words) Editor's note: This is the first entry in a symposium on The Case for American Power. The second essay will be published tomorrow. The premise of his argument is that power is a fact of life and must be wielded…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (409+ words) Among the charter eight teams of the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs in 1876 was the Chicago White Stockings, who in 1903 adopted the name "Cubs." The Cubs are the only team from 1876 still to play in their original city, a…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (141+ words) Barnett once told producers that TV had never quite figured out how to portray prosecutors. In Felony Review, he finally does it himself. Randy Barnett's memoir of his time as a prosecutor reveals something about the relationship between theory and…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (289+ words) For helping us move from vibes to empirical analysis, we are indebted to political scientist Brandon Rottinghaus, who provides a quantitative approach to this issue in his new book, Scandal: Why Politicians Survive Controversy in a Partisan Era. The issue…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (834+ words) At national academic conferences, law professors sometimes play a variant of a game of "one-downsmanship." It's a contest to determine whose state supreme court is the worst. It is sad to report that when I was on the faculty at…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (641+ words) The buck stops with us." This is the ultimate conclusion of Spencer Klavan's lead essay for this forum, and thus far, we very much agree. Humanity is in a position to shape the development and diffusion of artificial intelligence (AI)....

6+ day, 2+ hour ago  (296+ words) There are many reasons to celebrate the 250th year of American independence, but among the best is the tradition of religious liberty. Rather than merely tolerating dissent, the Founders achieved the great unshackling of human conscience. Among their number, this revolution…...