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Aug 24, 2023 | 
lawliberty.org | Andrew E. Busch |Zack Yost |David R. Upham |Graham McAleer
I am grateful for Zack Yost’s August 17 critique of my August 4 article on Ukraine. There are certainly points on which we agree. Mr. Yost is right to be concerned about the fiscal condition of the United States. He is also quite right that the West needs to act decisively to replenish military stockpiles, which is why Britain, Germany, and the United States are significantly expanding production of artillery and tank shells.
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Aug 23, 2023 | 
lawliberty.org | Brent Sadler |David R. Upham |Graham McAleer |James Dominic Rooney
The authority of Congress to “provide and maintain a Navy” is simply and directly stated as one of the enumerated powers of the Legislative Branch of government. The framers of the U.S. Constitution likely little dreamed that Congress would one day use that authority to build and send to sea the most powerful navy in world history—a guarantor of the nation’s sovereignty, prosperity, and peace.
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Aug 23, 2023 | 
lawliberty.org | Paul Schwennesen |Spanish conquest |David R. Upham |Stephanie Slade
As I wing my way toward a fifth mission in Ukraine, I find myself challenging (if not exactly questioning) my motives. On the one hand, it may simply be that “war is fun” as one retired Army officer pointed out. And yes, there is a certain thrill in running toward the sound of gunfire, living life at peak focus, and picking through the carnage of war. The Dutch call it ramptoerisme. But that’s not entirely convincing: there are scores of wars the world over which seem distinctly not-so-fun.
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Aug 23, 2023 | 
lawliberty.org | John Inazu |Yuval Levin |David R. Upham |Stephanie Slade
August 23, 2023 Our expressive civil liberties enable a pluralistic society made up of people with deep differences on things that matter.
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Aug 23, 2023 | 
lawliberty.org | Helen Dale |David R. Upham |Stephanie Slade |Graham McAleer
Given the realities of global economics, parlaying black poverty and historical disadvantage for moral victim points only goes so far. Some years ago—when he was still living in Poland—political science academic Remi Adekoya attempted to play the now common game of Oppression Olympics with some Polish colleagues. It did not go well. When I’d bring up history, Poles would acknowledge Africa had been ruthlessly exploited but then go on to recall their own history.
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Aug 21, 2023 | 
lawliberty.org | Andrea Picciotti-Bayer |David R. Upham |Stephanie Slade |Graham McAleer
During the Obama years, a new euphemism for religious freedom became popular on the political left: “freedom of worship.” By implication, restricting the free exercise of faith to church on Sunday, this phrase was a piece with other efforts to drive faith from the public square. Fortunately, in recent years, those who recognize the importance of both faith and freedom have fought back.
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Aug 21, 2023 | 
lawliberty.org | James Dominic Rooney |a Dominican friar |David R. Upham |Stephanie Slade
August 21, 2023 Government has a legitimate role in preserving peace, but it cannot make men virtuous. A classical perspective holds that ordinances and laws should be obeyed precisely insofar as those laws specify moral norms for the community. To specify or make determinate involves not merely applying moral norms to concrete situations, which anyone can do by themselves, but also creating the circumstances under which those obligations can be fulfilled.
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Aug 17, 2023 | 
lawliberty.org | Katy Faust |Stacy Manning |David R. Upham |John O. McGinnis
Our American democracy, as Tocqueville suggested, was born of the marriage between the “spirit of religion” and the “spirit of liberty.” For three centuries, Christian morality was, along with liberty and equality, foundational to American laws and mores—especially as evinced by our peculiar and stern devotion to monogamy. By this morality, there was an “iron triangle” binding together three distinct but morally inseparable goods: offspring, marriage, and sexual congress.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
lawliberty.org | Rachel Lu |David R. Upham |Stephanie Slade |Graham McAleer
Sometimes, a book manages to impress simply by exceeding low expectations. Senator Josh Hawley’s Manhood was, for me, such a book. As the title suggests, it’s a “man book,” and in my experience, these tend to fall into two categories. Some consider the needs and struggles of modern males in a careful, circumspect way. Others rant and fuel male resentment.
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
lawliberty.org | Robert Kaplan |Graham McAleer |David R. Upham |Stephanie Slade
For Robert Kaplan, a wise geopolitics needs both maps and great books. The Tragic Mind is a short book on the moral psychology of leadership. Robert Kaplan must be one of America’s most prolific writers—he has penned over twenty volumes—and he has a talent for accessible writing that conveys great insight.
