Macabre Halloween celebrations risk trivializing man's ultimate fate. Halloween—with its sugar-coated, mischievous dead—is well worth reflecting on for what it reveals about the place death occupies ...

Be that as it may, one of the questions commonly raised was the relation between Islam, Islamism and the disorders in France. Although it was perfectly obvious and undisputed that young men of Muslim ...

The force of partisan strife in modern politics should make us appreciate the need for checks and balances. Most Enlightenment thinkers did not imagine that parties would, could, or should be ...

When Frederick Douglass began to appreciate the Constitution, it was a turning point in the drama of emancipation. Frederick Douglass didn’t just ask Americans to honor their Constitution. He demanded ...

The state should try to give citizens an "equal opportunity" to live in neighborhoods free of violent crime. Every child has a right to grow up without fear of gunshots at their door. This may be one ...

Anyone who appreciates political ideas and music will open Martha Nussbaum’s The Republic of Love with a twinge of envy. Nussbaum is one of the best-known political philosophers of our time, a ...

Stephen Bowd and Alexander Lee seek to restore Machiavelli’s name, if not among heroes, at least among the literary and political greats. Any effort to briefly summarize Machiavelli’s political and ...

There are few things politicians hate more than insignificance. Perhaps it is a reflection on the narrowness of my acquaintanceship that I know no one who fails to understand that government ...

Gorsuch’s concurrence in Trump v. Slaughter may hold the key to the future of separation of powers jurisprudence. In Trump v. Slaughter, Justice Neil Gorsuch voted with the majority to rule that since ...

The Constitution’s meaning does not run out merely because the evidence is contested. Originalism today is predominant yet divided. Courts regularly invoke original meaning, but originalist scholars ...

Two recent decisions show Chief Justice Roberts’s institutionalism can sometimes be more like illusionism. Chief Justice John Roberts’s twentieth year on the Supreme Court demonstrates the ...