Zena Hitz

1 month ago | lawliberty.org | John O. McGinnis |Larry P. Arnn |Daniel Klein |Zena Hitz

America’s central economic problem is preserving the nation’s capacity to sustain growth vigorous enough to counteract an impending fiscal crisis of escalating national debt. Part of the reason that growth has declined in the last decades is the stifling force of over-regulation. The new administration’s sweeping agenda for regulatory rollback thus need not represent merely political posturing, but has the potential to address one of the most profound threats confronting contemporary America.

1 month ago | lawliberty.org | Veronique de Rugy |Daniel Klein |Zena Hitz |Bradley J. Birzer

When COVID-19 emerged in early 2020, policymakers across the world scrambled to respond. Their instincts failed them—and us. They locked economies, confined healthy people with sick ones, and closed schools, leaving children with learning deficits from which they might never recover. Every government threw gobs of money out windows as if this largesse were costless. It was as shortsighted and destructive as government responses usually are.

1 month ago | lawliberty.org | Neil Gorsuch |Jace Lington |Daniel Klein |Zena Hitz

So much for the administrative state. The case studies Justice Neil Gorsuch and his co-author Janie Nitze marshal in Over Ruled show that the system the Progressives erected is not equal to the challenges of modern government. Whatever noble intentions might have motivated abandoning the original constitution, the authors’ critique eviscerates the idea that unleashing detached administrators is the best way to establish justice in America.

1 month ago | lawliberty.org | Agnes Callard |Zena Hitz |Richard Samuelson |Helen Dale

The Elks, the Shriners, and the bowling leagues are too far gone to be mourned. Even our dining has become solitary if our cultural commentators are to be believed. Office communities breathe on life support, as do many churches. Face-to-face interaction of any kind, much less substantive conversation, is increasingly hard to come by. But who mourns the decline of philosophical conversation?

Jan 10, 2025 | thelampmagazine.com | Matthew Walther |Zena Hitz |Peter Hitchens |J. Vance

A consequence of the variegated fabric of my education and career is that I do nothing particularly well. I have enough Greek to make a nuisance of myself; I’ve absorbed enough higher math to make my obvious errors in basic daily calculations seem rather grand. I can play a very cautious, conservative rubber of contract bridge. Somehow, this has added up to a life. From time to time, I do get a wild hair to acquire a skill or trade.