Austin Raynor

Jan 17, 2025 | lawliberty.org | Titus Techera |David Schaefer |Emina Melonic |Austin Raynor

Once when I was walking through Cambridge with a friend, we saw a church dedicated to English martyrs. My friend asked, “Mary’s or Elizabeth’s?”—Protestant or Catholic martyrs, in other words. It made me think that one difference between Protestantism and the older confessions or churches is that martyrs feature much less in modern Christianity, whereas it would almost be trivial to say that the Catholic and Orthodox confessions are built on martyrs. Why do martyrs matter?

Jan 14, 2025 | lawliberty.org | Neil Siegel |David Schaefer |Emina Melonic |Austin Raynor

In Federalist #9, Alexander Hamilton rebutted “the advocates of despotism,” who maintained the impossibility of combining free government with civic order, citing advances in “the science of politics,” embodied in the US Constitution. Following Hamilton’s lead, in The Collective-Action Constitution,Duke law professor Neil S.

Jan 14, 2025 | lawliberty.org | Max J. Prowant |Emina Melonic |Austin Raynor

Since Bashar al-Assad fled Damascus on December 8, there has been a strange mixture of excitement and trepidation. On one hand, it is difficult not to greet the regime’s defeat with pure jubilation. After all, Assad was a cruel dictator who engaged in horrible crimes for the sole purpose of staying in power. There is little question that Assad’s image will be remembered alongside other mass-murdering maniacs in history. Internationally, his defeat also heralds good news.

Jan 13, 2025 | lawliberty.org | Elizabeth Matthew |Emina Melonic |Austin Raynor |Alex J. Pollock

In 1967, my mother was 10 years old. By that time, she had for about a year been taking a city bus alone, from her residential neighborhood to Philadelphia’s city center, where she would walk and window shop. She had also been babysitting her two younger siblings—alone in the house, not as a mother’s helper—from the age of seven. Even by 1960s standards, this was a lot of childhood freedom and responsibility.

Jan 10, 2025 | lawliberty.org | Emina Melonic |Austin Raynor |Alex J. Pollock |Max Skjönsberg

Clint Eastwood is an unstoppable force. An actor and a director who has been building his career since his first appearance on screen in 1955, Eastwood, now 94 years old, has directed and produced a new film. Juror #2 was released in November, and like many of Eastwood’s films, it deals with justice and moral dilemmas that characters face. In the final analysis, it is a moving film that captures the complexity of human life while pointing to the redemptive power of truth.