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4 weeks ago | 
lawliberty.org | Thomas Howard |Rachel Lu |Theodore Dalrymple |Bruno Meyerhof Salama
In 1908, a 13-year-old boy named Khorloogiin Dugar entered a Buddhist monastery in Achit Beysiyn, Mongolia, a region under the control of the Qing Dynasty. He took the religious name “Choibalsan” and began studying to be a lama, but spirituality, it would seem, was not his forte. In 1913, the boy fled from the monastery and found his way into the Russian education system.
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1 month ago | 
lawliberty.org | Rachel Lu |John Grove |Jodi Bruhn |John Berlau
The Black Death marked an interesting turning point in European history. It was of course a monumental tragedy, killing as much as half of the entire population of fourteenth-century Europe, inflicting terror and suffering on an unimaginable scale. If you managed to survive it, your chances of thriving in the post-plague world were relatively good. With so much newly available land and resources, science and agriculture saw significant advances.
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2 months ago | 
lawliberty.org | Luke Foster |Mark Pulliam |Rachel Lu |Amy Swearer
Vivek Ramaswamy’s much-discussed Christmas X post reflected several questionable assumptions, but it was right to link a culture’s highest aspirations and its education. One could be forgiven for watching the children’s movies popular in 1990s America and drawing the conclusion that what we most wanted was a life of ease, security and spontaneity—akin to the self-indulgence of an ancient tyrant.
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2 months ago | 
lawliberty.org | Thomas Powers |Mark Pulliam |Rachel Lu |Amy Swearer
In just one month, there has been a massive reset of civil rights politics in the United States that will reverberate for decades. We are still waiting to see how this is going to take precise shape in the context of higher education. Among the Trump administration’s many DEI-related executive orders, none yet outlines a detailed program to address progressive extremism in our colleges and universities (though several do touch on it directly or indirectly).
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2 months ago | 
lawliberty.org | Chad Squitieri |Mark Pulliam |Rachel Lu |Amy Swearer
Under Chief Justice Roberts, the Supreme Court has demonstrated a willingness to enforce the Constitution’s separation-of-powers principles. This is welcome news for those who think that aspects of the administrative state run afoul of important constitutional lines separating the federal government’s three coequal branches. But not everyone has found the Roberts Court’s separation-of-powers jurisprudence to be cause for celebration.
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2 months ago | 
lawliberty.org | Robert G. Natelson |Mark Pulliam |Rachel Lu |Amy Swearer
February 20, 2025 USAID grants may have cracked constitutional spending limits. The new Department of Government Efficiency informs us that the federal government, through its Agency for International Development (AID), has been distributing taxpayer money for condoms in Gaza, DEI in Serbia and Ireland, and transgender stage productions in Columbia and Peru.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
lawliberty.org | Amy Swearer |Mark Pulliam |Rachel Lu |David Goldman
The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens.” For much of the last century, the prevailing academic consensus has been that these words reflect the nation’s adoption of the English common law rule of jus soli, a feudalistic principle under which a person’s citizenship is irrevocably dictated by his or her birth upon certain land rather than inherited by bloodline (jus sanguinis).
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
lawliberty.org | Rachel Lu |Alex J. Pollock |Max Skjönsberg |Daniel Mahoney
January 9, 2025 Sleep experts are anxious to end Daylight Savings, because they want to put us to bed like toddlers. As a new chapter opens for American politics, it is natural to feel a certain uneasiness. What lies ahead? Will Americans continue to enjoy the peace and prosperity with which we have for so long been blessed, or will our way of life be torn asunder, as customs and conventions are reordered by an aggressive state?
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Rachel Lu
A few years ago, family therapist Joshua Coleman wrote a piece in The Atlantic on a distressing phenomenon he was witnessing more and more frequently: generational estrangement. Parents and adult children are cutting ties more than ever before, usually because one party decides unilaterally that a relationship with the other is no longer wanted. Most frequently, it’s the kids who break the link. Is anyone really surprised by this trend?
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Mary Beard |Sarah Skwire |Rachel Lu |Mark Pulliam
Mary Beard’s excellent new book, Emperor of Rome, begins with a timeline of Roman emperors from Julius Caesar to Alexander Severus that gives each emperor’s years of reign, a quick fact or two, and often, his manner of death. But these three pages are the last time that Beard presents her readers with anything like a forced march through Roman history. Indeed, her book is specifically designed not to do that, and Beard sounds somewhat exhausted by the idea that she might.
