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Dec 18, 2024 | 
wsj.com | William Anthony Hay
Queen Victoria’s reign began in 1837, when she was only 18. Europe was enjoying the relative tranquility of a post-Napoleonic age, but Britain was grappling with the disruptions of the Industrial Revolution and the demands of reformers who were questioning the country’s most entrenched customs and august institutions. When she died in 1901, at age 81, mass society and popular democracy had transformed Britain, and the monarchy itself stood on the cusp of redefinition.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
wsj.com | William Anthony Hay
When we turn attention to World War I and its fighting, our thoughts go to the Western Front, to trenches and barbed wire and men going “over the top” to near-certain death. Battles at Verdun, the Somme and Passchendaele come to mind. Grim scenes from the front lines in Belgium and France are still vivid more than a century later, and still deeply disturbing. The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 W. W.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Reuven Brenner |Helen Dale |William Anthony Hay |Bradley J. Birzer
Before the Internet and social media, there was Johann Gutenberg’s seventeenth-century movable-type printing innovation. (The Chinese invented something similar centuries before, but without impact). It revolutionized the spread of literacy and contributed to the Protestant movement’s break from the Catholic Church. Between the printing press and the Internet, there were other things: the telegraph, radio, and TV. None diffused written texts as the Internet and the printing press have done.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Helen Dale |William Anthony Hay |Bradley J. Birzer |John O. McGinnis
Let me tell you about an intense time in British politics: one where Scotland’s hate speech legislation came into force, the final Cass Review into paediatric gender medicine was published, a UK general election was called, and Nigel Farage made a triumphant political return. Throughout, J. K. Rowling tweeted. On June 3, Farage left his quondam job as telly broadcaster for GBNews and announced a tilt at Parliament.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | James Marcus |Allen Mendenhall |William Anthony Hay |Bradley J. Birzer
We all have guilty pleasures. Mine is Ralph Waldo Emerson. A proud Southerner, I’m not supposed to like him. His Southern contemporaries William Gilmore Simms and Edgar Allan Poe lambasted him.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Richard Garnett |William Anthony Hay |Bradley J. Birzer |John O. McGinnis
A unanimous ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States, preserving a federal agency’s relaxed regulations of an abortion-causing drug, is not what contemporary Court-related coverage and commentary would lead one to expect.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Samuel Gregg |William Anthony Hay |Bradley J. Birzer |John O. McGinnis
Across the world, the light for market-liberal ideas is sadly dimming. Not only have tariffs become the White House’s bipartisan trade policy of preference since 2017, but Republicans and Democrats alike have made it clear that any downsizing of the entitlement programs that constitute the bulk of US government spending is off the political table. We have strayed very far from the days of Ronald Reagan and, for that matter, Bill Clinton.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Charles S. Maier |William Anthony Hay |Bradley J. Birzer |John O. McGinnis
If journalists write history’s first draft, their efforts demand extensive revision to account for both new information and the consequences of events as they emerge. Trends only come into view over a much longer term. What seemed important at first often matters less than other things that bring larger patterns into focus. Charles Maier builds on more than fifty years of scholarship to highlight important trends over the long twentieth century in The Project-State and Its Rivals.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Rob Henderson |Helen Dale |William Anthony Hay |Bradley J. Birzer
Rob Henderson’s memoir stings us by revealing the consequences of our own luxury beliefs. When I was still in single digits, I read The Murder of Robbie Wayne, Age Six. It appeared in condensed form, in Reader’s Digest, on the magazine racks in my primary school library. I probably shouldn’t have read it, realistically, but I’d become—unexpectedly—an advanced reader. My parents often wrote letters requesting permission for me to read certain books: one, I recall, was Lord of the Flies.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Mark Pulliam |William Anthony Hay |Bradley J. Birzer |John O. McGinnis
February 27, 2024 Martin v. Boise is an abomination that has wreaked havoc on cities across the Ninth Circuit. The US Supreme Court recently decided to hear an appeal from the notoriously-liberal Ninth Circuit, in a 2023 case entitled City of Grants Pass v.
