Todd Breyfogle

Jan 1, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Alexandra Hudson |Todd Breyfogle |Jonathan Leaf |Oren Cass

Michael Oakeshott once described civil society as a group of porcupines huddling together close enough to stay warm, but far enough apart not to poke each other. We seem to live in a world where we have neither the warmth, nor the separation, nor the thickness of skin to withstand the inevitable barbs that come with living together. A civil society is indeed a particular kind of animal presupposing conceptual and practical bonds. Civil society is not an extended family.

Dec 20, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Paula Cohen |Todd Breyfogle |Colleen A. Sheehan |Aaron Rhodes

In his essay Of Essay-Writing, David Hume divides the world into two kinds of people: the learned and the conversible.