Paul O. Carrese

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The Progressive Threat to Constitutionalism – John O. McGinnis

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.
The Practice of Prudence in Redgauntlet – Christopher J. Scalia

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.
Restoring a Higher Civics in America’s Universities – Paul O. Carrese

Sep 30, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Paul O. Carrese |Rachel Lu |James Hankins

I am deeply grateful to the Law & Liberty editors for organizing this Forum on my essay urging the restoration of genuinely higher learning in America’s universities, especially liberal education as a civic education. I am indebted to each respondent for seriously engaging with my analysis of the multi-faceted crisis facing higher education, and my remedies for private as well as public institutions. Their contributions made me wiser about the deeper principles at issue.
A Liberal and Civic Education for All – J. Michael Hoffpauir

Sep 25, 2024 | lawliberty.org | J. Michael Hoffpauir |Paul O. Carrese |James Hankins |Rebecca Burgess

Since October 7, 2023, pro-Palestine protestors have disrupted and occupied American college and university campuses. But these are only the latest instances of an increasingly violent ideology that has been infiltrating American higher education for decades. In his forum lead, Paul O. Carrese rightly argues that ideological orthodoxy that promotes activism over liberal education has produced the recent unrest.
Reviving the Study of American Government – Michael B. Poliakoff

Sep 18, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Michael Poliakoff |Paul O. Carrese |James Hankins |Rebecca Burgess

“We understand and recognize what is worthy, but we do not see it through, some through sloth, others putting pleasure above what is noble. There are many pleasures in life: long conversations and leisure, a pleasant vice. And then there is shameful indecisiveness.” – Euripides, Hippolytus, 380-84 As I read Professor Carrese’s fine essay, a certain elegiac feeling settled over me. We have been here before, shocked at the level of civic illiteracy.
Learning Civics from History – James Hankins

Sep 11, 2024 | lawliberty.org | James Hankins |Paul O. Carrese |Steven Hayward |Richard Samuelson

When confronted with confusing or appalling new events—and the last few years have surely had plenty of them—the instinct of historians like myself is to look for historical parallels. Finding a good historical parallel can be alarming or consoling, but whatever the nature of the parallel, there is comfort in knowing that there is a parallel.
The Restoration of Higher Learning – Paul O. Carrese

Sep 2, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Paul O. Carrese |Samuel Gregg |Titus Techera

The pro-Palestinian campus protests at many universities during the spring of 2024 have deepened the crisis of legitimacy facing American higher education. New Gallup polling since the protests shows a 21 percent drop in the top tier of confidence in higher education since 2015; with a super-majority of Independents, let alone Republicans, registering only some or little-to-no trust that colleges and universities serve American society.
Paul Carrese on Civic Education on Campus

May 1, 2024 | aei.org | Nat Malkus |Paul O. Carrese

Over the past couple weeks, as campus protests and crackdowns on campus protests have captured the nation’s attention, it has become increasingly clear that something is wrong with the civic culture at universities. But how do we change course? How do we create a healthier civic culture on campus? And how can we train the next generation of Americans both to respect freedom of speech and be respectful in disagreement?
Civic Thought and Leadership: A Higher Civics to Sustain American Constitutional Democracy

Mar 25, 2024 | mdpi.com | Paul O. Carrese

1. The American Crisis: Perpetuating Our Political InstitutionsAs America approaches the 250th anniversary, in 2026, of its political founding in 1776, three contexts suggest the deepening of an American civic crisis. The first is the persistence of affective or negative polarization across party lines, and the persistent appeal of the demagogic former President Donald Trump along with a strongly emotive opposition to him—altogether indicating an unhealthy political order (Kleinfeld 2023).
How Civics Can Remedy Higher Education’s Decline | National Review

Feb 13, 2024 | nationalreview.com | Paul O. Carrese