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1 week ago | 
lawliberty.org | Joseph Holmes |Bruno Meyerhof Salama |Max J. Prowant |John O. McGinnis
Everyone seems crazy about Severance. One of the first shows in a while to be a true “water cooler” show, it has a 96 percent rating from Rotten Tomatoes critics and 76 percent from audiences. It’s spawned an entire cottage industry of YouTube sleuths theorizing about every clue the show’s given to the show’s mystery. It’s even crossed political boundaries, with everyone from Eileen Jones at Jacobin and Ben Shapiro at the Daily Wire calling it “the best show on television”.
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2 months ago | 
lawliberty.org | Max J. Prowant |Mark Pulliam |Amy Swearer
Historians may well treat the year 2024 as the most politically consequential year in the Middle East since 2003, or even 1979. Over the past 12 to 15 months, a series of major events, each of which would have been heralded as a major development on its own, have together flipped the strategic board, changing the political trajectory of the region.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
lawliberty.org | Max J. Prowant |Richard Kraemer |Ilya Shapiro |Reuven Brenner
On November 24, 2024, Romanian voters sent two outsider politicians—one being the nationalist provocateur Călin Georgescu—into a Presidential run-off, scheduled for December 8. Yet days before the second round, Romania’s Constitutional Court annulled the election results based on a report from the country’s intelligence community. Their findings implied that Russia was behind a massive disinformation campaign via TikTok.
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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.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | James WIlson |James Wilson |Max J. Prowant |Rachel Lu
Before exiting the Pentagon this summer, nuclear strategist and MIT professor Vipin Narang told reporters that we may “one day look back and see the quarter-century after the Cold War as a nuclear intermission.” His comments were delivered in the context of President Biden’s quietly approving a new nuclear strategy to counter the threat of coordination between China, Russia, and North Korea.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | John O. McGinnis |J. R. Gage |Paul O. Carrese |Max J. Prowant
Individuals may threaten the rule of law, but ideas pose a deeper, more enduring danger. People die, but ideas persist across generations, shaping minds and reshaping societies. Today, progressivism stands as the gravest threat to the rule of law in our constitutional democracy. Progressivism’s challenge to the American legal order arises not from misunderstanding but from a deep-rooted opposition to the Constitution’s original design.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Max J. Prowant |Rachel Lu |James Hankins
A year after the October 7 attacks, there is much that calls for reflection: the memory of that fateful day, the surprising surge of antisemitism in the US, the nature of our strategic interests in the Middle East, and what it means to be a friend to Israel as it continues its war in Gaza. Most importantly, we should reflect on what a just ending to the conflict might be and whether a just ending is preferable to a prudent one. The war will end eventually.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Christopher J. Scalia |J. R. Gage |Paul O. Carrese |Max J. Prowant
Several years ago, political science professor Greg Weiner surveyed our political landscape and asked, “What space is left for prudence?” It’s a good question: at a time marked by major political division, when neither political party can garner an enduring majority, and after a summer punctuated by two plots on a former president’s life, the ancient virtue of prudence seems impracticable.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | J. R. Gage |Max J. Prowant |Rachel Lu |James Hankins
As students return to school and our anticipation for fall colors grows, many of us are putting on classic movies that fit the autumn vibes. One of those perennial favorites is Dead Poets Society, a film that has been praised by a generation of students and teachers for its rebellious defense of the humanities. But as we approach its 35th anniversary, the film is due for a reevaluation.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Max J. Prowant |Rachel Lu |James Hankins
There are good reasons for students to learn about the madmen of history. The vices of such men contrast sharply with the heroes whose virtues we hope our citizens and statesmen might emulate; they serve as reminders of the cruelties that a flawed human nature can produce; and they can serve as warnings for where politics can occasionally descend should the better angels of our nature fail on a mass scale. Students today rightly study Adolf Hitler and the Nazis for all three reasons.
