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Apr 19, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Spencer Klavan |James Patterson |Brian Domitrovic |David Krugler
April 19, 2024 From whence cometh our help? They call him Da Liu: Big Liu. A looser translation might be “the big kahuna,” the one who needs no introduction. Many American viewers of Netflix’s new interstellar drama, 3 Body Problem, are unfamiliar with the trilogy of books it’s based on (collectively titled Remembrance of Earth’s Past) and their author, Liu Cixin. But in his native country, he is a literary sensation, the kingpin of Chinese science fiction.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Titus Techera |James Patterson |Brian Domitrovic |David Krugler
Last month I was at a book launch in Washington, DC. This was an event for Republicans—sparsely attended. Older gentlemen and ladies who may have been notable once were obviously struggling with anonymity, looking for people they themselves might know without looking too eager to everyone else. Of course, there were almost no young people except the waiting staff. I knew maybe five people there and wondered what they were doing there; and vice versa.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Brian Domitrovic |with Arthur Laffer |Jeanne Sinquefield |David Krugler
Steve Lawrence, who died last month, had a hit with Eydie Gormé in 1960 with the most delightful song, “This Could Be the Start of Something,” which was the theme of Steve Allen’s Tonight show. The song was about competent young adults living large in the great 1950s prosperity.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | David Krugler |Spencer Klavan |James Patterson |Brian Domitrovic
The best scenes in Masters of the Air, a nine-part series on Apple TV, arrive at 25,000 feet, as squadrons of B-17 Flying Fortresses cruise in formation to bomb Germany during World War II. Oxygen masks strapped on, the crews man their posts and brace for flak and Luftwaffe fighter planes.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Daniel Miller |James Patterson |Brian Domitrovic |David Krugler
“If one wishes to avoid the horrors of a revolution, one must will it and make it oneself.”– Antoine de RivarolThe term revolution is one of the most mystified concepts in the modern conceptual lexicon and also one of the most fundamental. The word was originally an astronomical term designating the regular motion of celestial bodies that acquired intellectual prestige through Copernicus’s De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Walker Wright |Julia Cartwright |James Hankins |David Krugler
During the nineteenth-century debates over slavery, many of the institution’s most ardent defenders opposed a liberal society for being antithetical to the Southern slave economy.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Jennifer Burns |Julia Cartwright |James Hankins |David Krugler
Good friend and fellow economist, Arnold Harberger, describes Milton Friedman as having “no frills, no pettiness, no fear.” It is with this countenance that Friedman spearheaded the monetarist movement in opposition to the prevailing wisdom of Keynesian economics throughout the twentieth century. Milton Friedman was a counter-revolutionary stalwart in advocating for the merits of unfettered markets and limited governmental interference.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Shlomo M. Brody |James Hankins |David Krugler |David Goldman
In Ethics of Our Fighters: A Jewish View on War and Morality, Rabbi Brody’s learned and sensitive review of the ethical problems that confront the Jewish State in its long war against terrorists embedded in civilian populations bears a 2024 publication date, and its Acknowledgements page is dated by the author as October 2023. The manuscript was obviously submitted before October 7, so there is no mention of the Simchat Torah massacre.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Jeff Kosseff |Elizabeth Amato |David Krugler |Frederick M. Hess
In March 2020, Waylon Bailey posted on Facebook a joke about zombies, and how his local sheriff’s office in Forest Hill, Louisiana had orders to shoot the infected. Appealing to Brad Pitt’s character from World War Z, Bailey added the hashtag #weneedyoubradpitt. A few hours later, the sheriff’s office arrested him and charged him with terrorism under a state law that forbade spreading information with the intent of causing panic.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | James Hankins |David Krugler |Frederick M. Hess |Michael Q. McShane
Tacitus at the beginning of his Annals, after brilliantly summarizing all of Roman history in the space of a few paragraphs, ends by providing an answer to a question that must have arisen in the minds of his Roman readers. Why was it that the present generation offered such little resistance to the revolutionary transformation of the republic into a monarchy that Augustus had gradually brought about over the course of three decades?
