Law & Liberty

6 days ago | lawliberty.org | Charles King |Reema Jadeja-Reed |Theodore Dalrymple |Bruno Meyerhof Salama

Religious or agnostic, one would be hard-pressed to find an individual in the Anglosphere unfamiliar with George Frideric Handel’s Messiah. Considered to be the greatest participatory work ever created, it is estimated that 13.7 million western classical compositions have been written since Messiah in 1741, yet it remains the most annually heard and sung work in the entire classical repertoire.

6 days ago | lawliberty.org | Sam Negus |Theodore Dalrymple |Bruno Meyerhof Salama

It is now a quarter-millennium since those embattled farmers stood by that arched bridge, flags to April’s breeze unfurled. Just as the Massachusetts militia’s volleys at Lexington and Concord portended innumerable more to follow, John Ferling’s Shots Heard Round the World: America, Britain, and Europe in the Revolutionary War will be a first among many new books timed for the anniversaries of each momentous event in America’s early national history.

1 week ago | lawliberty.org | Marc Wheat |Theodore Dalrymple |Bruno Meyerhof Salama |Daniel Mahoney

Educational freedom has been controversial for a very long time—by my estimate, the modern educational freedom movement started in 399 BC, when a private tutor was forced to drink hemlock by the equivalent of the local board of education for failing to acknowledge the god of the city and a rather vague charge of “corrupting the youth.”How families choose to educate their children is still the locus of enormously controversial debates.

1 week ago | lawliberty.org | Thomas Howard |Rachel Lu |Theodore Dalrymple |Bruno Meyerhof Salama

In 1908, a 13-year-old boy named Khorloogiin Dugar entered a Buddhist monastery in Achit Beysiyn, Mongolia, a region under the control of the Qing Dynasty. He took the religious name “Choibalsan” and began studying to be a lama, but spirituality, it would seem, was not his forte. In 1913, the boy fled from the monastery and found his way into the Russian education system.

1 week ago | lawliberty.org | Ethan Yang |Daniel Mahoney |Titus Techera |Graham McAleer

On March 18, 2025, President Trump dismissed the two remaining Democrat Commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission. This represented a shattering of both tradition and legal precedent. If you asked any Republican member of the FTC what he or she thinks about presidential control over independent agencies, you would likely get the same answer that Mark Meador provided at his confirmation hearing.