Richard Alan Ryerson

2 weeks ago | lawliberty.org | Hans Eicholz |Richard Alan Ryerson |Titus Techera |Graham McAleer

In his bracing account of the reasons for the clash of American and British forces at Lexington and Concord, Richard Ryerson has touched on several of the most vital themes of both British and American constitutional history, running from Magna Carta (1215) to the Glorious Revolution (1688–89) to the American Revolution (1776).

3 weeks ago | lawliberty.org | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |Spencer Klavan |Richard Alan Ryerson |Alex J. Pollock

The addresses collected in We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsynwere written by a man on the run. The earliest is his Nobel Prize lecture, printed in 1972 after he sent it to Stockholm in place of a live appearance. Given the way his novels depicted Soviet Russia, he worried that if he traveled to Sweden in person, he might never be allowed back. He was probably right.

3 weeks ago | lawliberty.org | Richard Alan Ryerson |John Grove |John O. McGinnis |Jodi Bruhn

In front of Lexington, Massachusetts’s Town Hall is a large sign that announces, every day, the number of days until April 19, 2025, the 250th anniversary of the first battle between British Army soldiers and local militia units that began America’s War for Independence. Neither the original event’s location nor its date was entirely a surprise, either in Massachusetts or as far south as Virginia.