Marc Landy

Jul 8, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Dennis Hale |Marc Landy |Joseph Postell |Isaac Willour

When facing objections that he was violating his state’s constitution, George Washington Plunkitt famously quipped, “What’s the constitution among friends?” Today, at the national level, people across the political spectrum seem increasingly willing to ignore constitutional restraints for the sake of accomplishing short-term political goals. Like Plunkitt, both sides seem to agree that if the ends are sufficiently important, a constitution can be ignored in choosing the means to accomplish them.

Jun 11, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Marc Landy |Scott Yenor |Charles Cooke |John Grove

Symposium June 11, 2024 Yuval Levin's American Covenant argues that the Constitution still has what it takes to restore health to American political life. It is increasingly common to hear that the Constitution is the cause—or at least one cause—of America’s political dysfunction. It gets in the way of the efficient government the modern world needs. It does not offer a coherent enough moral vision. It allows too much dissension and factionalism. It does not keep up with the times.

Apr 16, 2024 | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Dennis Hale |Marc Landy |Jeffrey Anderson |Daniel Mahoney

Tyranny of the Minority is the effort of two prize-winning Harvard political scientists, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, to understand what they see as a crisis in the development of a diverse, multiracial democracy. The authors, who together previously wrote How Democracies Die (2018), do not believe the crisis began with the election of Donald Trump.