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Apr 30, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Daniel Miller |Samuel Gregg |Spencer Klavan |David Goldman
How serious is the current political situation in the United States? In the last ten years we’ve seen:A concerted campaign of subversion against a sitting President involving the national security state, a compliant media, and foreign intelligence agencies. Ongoing lawfare and smear campaigns not only against Donald Trump and his allies but also Elon Musk, independent journalists, intellectuals, and artists.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Andrew Beck |Daniel Miller |Samuel Gregg |Spencer Klavan
The meta topic sitting beneath the surface of Daniel Miller’s sprawling essay on revolution is a study on the nature of aristocracy and its role in an ordered self-governed society. In the modern context, “aristocracy” is believed to be those possessing the earmarks of inherited wealth, unearned social privilege, and personal vanity.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | James Patterson |Daniel Miller |Spencer Klavan |Brian Domitrovic
Daniel Miller has offered us a critique of American political culture by way of European reactionary thought, with an emphasis on analogies from the French Revolution to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. His argument is primarily conceptual, meaning that he identifies key concepts as primary drivers for the events. The central and eponymous concept, American counterrevolution, is never directly defined.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Stephen Presley |Mark Pulliam |Daniel Miller |Rachel Lu
You find yourself in a bar, deeply engaged in a discussion with a friend over a public policy issue. You hold your position with confidence, convinced beyond doubt that there’s no room for debate. Every article you have read, every news segment you have watched, and every conversation you have had in the past month regarding this issue has reinforced your stance. In your mind, you are right, and your friend is mistaken. The evidence, as you see it, is undeniable.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Daniel Miller |John O. McGinnis |Titus Techera |Thomas Savidge
April 10, 2024 America's first revolution was an act of popular government. Our efforts to restore the republic must be also. Daniel Miller’s sprawling essay “American Counterrevolution” argues in florid tones that the West and America are currently being devoured by revolution.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Samuel Peter Mace |Stephen Presley |Mark Pulliam |Daniel Miller
Liberalism has faced strong intellectual headwinds since 2008. The collapse of the financial system did not just rock consumer confidence but the political system on which it was founded. Ever since, we have witnessed rising concern about the state of liberalism in America, creating a genuine fear of backsliding. Could a political order again emerge that sees inequality between peoples as natural and ongoing? Will political movements fearful of globalisation and its fruits gain the upper hand?
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Jana M. Stefanciosa |Stephen Presley |Mark Pulliam |Daniel Miller
In our current public discourse, there are growing concerns about the relationship between church and state. The extreme versions on the right and left either supplant religion for other moral preferences or hope to return to some golden age of Christian Nationalism or Integralism. Living in a pagan world, the early church walked a different path, maintaining a positive vision of the civil authorities, but defending their right of the virtuous expression of religious activity.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Jeff Horwitz |Mark Pulliam |Daniel Miller |Samuel Gregg
In 2021, Facebook insiders began to leak internal documents that revealed the company’s executives knew its platform was being widely misused. Pornographers, human traffickers, pedophiles, drug cartels, and other unscrupulous users found a home on Facebook. Yet, time and time again, Facebook executives chose to ignore or minimize these problems. The leaks, however, became the source for a series of articles by The Wall Street Journal investigative journalist and tech reporter Jeff Horwitz.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Jacob Bruggeman |Daniel Miller |Samuel Gregg |Rachel Lu
In his 1889–90 fictional portrait of aspiring Victorian artists grasping for success, Henry James observed that novels of the age were “large, loose, baggy monsters, with their queer elements of the accidental and the arbitrary.” Science, technology, and imperial expansion encouraged Enlightenment thinkers and popular broadsides to rhapsodize about the steady march of “progress” and the supposedly rational, modern subjects beating its drum.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Titus Techera |Daniel Miller |Samuel Gregg |Rachel Lu
I have written about Denis Villeneuve for some years now, remarking that no other director is given so much money to waste on beautiful spectacles. This might do us honor. Villeneuve is the favored artist of the digital/AI era (Blade Runner 2049 could be a computer game) and yet he cannot make his studios a profit on his blockbusters.
