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Nov 8, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | James Hankins |David Schaefer |Robert G. Natelson |Paul Schwennesen
Editor’s note: This is an edited version of a talk given to the John Marshall Program at Boston College on November 4, 2024. Let me begin by thanking David DiPasquale for the kind invitation to cross the Charles River and address the John Marshall Program (JMP) here at Boston College and Dallas Terry for helping with the arrangements.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Elizabeth Matthew |David Schaefer |Robert G. Natelson |Paul Schwennesen
Wendy Shalit, author of A Return to Modesty (1999), was raised in a secular Jewish family and became an observant Jew as an adult. In this book, she contends that a culture failing to inculcate broad respect for the sexual modesty that today’s observant Jewish women—and yesterday’s women writ large—visibly put at the center of their dress and lives will be hostile first to women and then to humanity itself.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Nelson Lund |Robert G. Natelson |Paul Schwennesen |Daniel Pitt
In his recent forum essay on nullification, Mark Pulliam distinguished between true nullification laws—those in which a state claims that it can refuse to obey federal laws that the state deems to be contrary to the Constitution—and laws that are merely statements of disagreement or vows of non-cooperation. This is an important distinction because the states are under no constitutional obligation to endorse federal laws or to cooperate with the federal government in enforcing them.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Jonathan Turley |David Schaefer |Robert G. Natelson |Paul Schwennesen
The First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech and of the press is currently in danger. Some politicians are openly lamenting the constraints the Amendment puts on efforts to quell alleged “disinformation,” a few even proposing for criminal sanctions against Americans who transmit it. Against this backdrop, constitutional scholar and New York Post columnist Jonathan Turley’s The Indispensable Rightcomes as a breath of fresh air.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Angel Eduardo |Carson Holloway |Robert G. Natelson |Paul Schwennesen
Why do we have a First Amendment? This isn’t a facetious question. In fact, it gets at the core of so many arguments surrounding originalist approaches to First Amendment jurisprudence, and why arguments that rigidly appeal to the text and history are often cherry-picked or incomplete.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Jeffrey Polet |Jeff Polet |Paul Schwennesen |Daniel Pitt
Americans fetishize voting. Granted, exercising the right seems an important act of democratic citizenship, and denial of the franchise typically accompanies the denial of a whole range of civil rights and liberties. But our focus on voting, and especially national horse-races whose conclusions result from the plebiscite, too often distracts us from the real work of citizenship, which is studious attention and attendance to the near-at-hand.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | F. Buckley |Scott Nelson |Paul Schwennesen |John O. McGinnis
Scott Nelson’s review of The Roots of Liberalism might leave one to wonder whether smart people should bother to read my book.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Adam J. MacLeod |Paul Schwennesen |John O. McGinnis |James Hankins
For over a decade, one of the hottest fronts in the culture war has been the most unnecessary. So-called “wedding vendor cases” now include not only conscientious florists and photographers but also nuns operating parochial schools, churches running colleges, and charitable ventures facilitating adoption. The scenario always plays out the same. The service provider happily serves all people, regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Paul Schwennesen |a Master’s Degree |John O. McGinnis
Half a league, half a league,Half a league onward,All in the valley of DeathRode the six hundred.“Charge,” was the captain’s cry;Theirs not to reason why,Theirs not to make reply,Theirs but to do and die,Into the valley of DeathRode the six hundred.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
aier.org | Paul Schwennesen
It’s the end of an era. Volkswagen has just that it is planning the closure of two of its German auto manufacturing plants for the first time in its corporate history. In the face of rising competitive pressures from China, its leadership made the seemingly prudent decision to shutter unprofitable operations and concentrate resources elsewhere. The forces of global competition have done what even Allied bombing campaigns could not: close Germany’s more venerable manufacturing plants.
