Randy Barnett

Jul 11, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Walker Wright |Isaac Willour |Paul Seaton |Randy Barnett

In his 1968 book The Great Terror, the late historian Robert Conquest documented a number of Joseph Stalin’s atrocities and brutalities in the 1930s Soviet Union. Criticized for decades, Conquest was largely vindicated following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening of its archives. A story often circulated is that Conquest’s publisher suggested a revised edition of The Great Terror and asked for a new title.

Jul 10, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Corbin K. Barthold |Isaac Willour |Paul Seaton |Randy Barnett

July 10, 2024 It may be that the power of centralized social media platforms is a passing phenomenon. In 2021, conservative lawmakers were concerned about so-called “Big Tech” censorship. Fresh in their minds was Twitter’s and Facebook’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story, as well as those platforms’ decision, in the wake of the January 6 Capitol riot, to ban Donald Trump from their services.

Jul 5, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Glenn Loury |Isaac Willour |Paul Seaton |Randy Barnett

The first time I spoke with Glenn Loury, my initial impression was “Does this guy always speak in full paragraphs?”Two weeks after the Supreme Court’s decision that struck down affirmative action, I’d emailed the veteran black economist for research I was doing on the conservative movement’s complicated relationship with racial issues, and he’d foolishly accepted. Now, I was listening to the Brown University professor absolutely spike Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson for her dissent in SFFA v.

Jul 4, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Paul Seaton |Isaac Willour |Randy Barnett |Richard Samuelson

The liberalism of the Declaration of Independence—classical liberalism with Anglo-American features that complicate and enrich it—is a rare bird. It is also very much under attack today, from the left and the right. The ascendant left wants a new anti-liberal regime established on the basis of its view of History, race, gender, and “DemocracyTM,” while prominent elements of the fractured right want a new aristocracy, or a new New Deal, or a new novus ordo founded on the notion of right order.

Jul 4, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Hans Eicholz |Randy Barnett |Richard Samuelson |Elizabeth Corey

Thomas Jefferson’s Summary View of the Rights of British America, composed sometime in the latter half of this month, 250 years ago, ought to be regarded as among the most fundamental primary sources informing our understanding of the spirit and history of the American constitutional tradition, but it is rarely considered in this way. Rather, it has served mainly as a backdrop to its more famous linear offspring, the Declaration of Independence.