Law & Liberty

Law & Liberty centers on the classical liberal tradition in law and politics, exploring its impact on a society made up of free and responsible individuals. This publication offers a platform for thoughtful discussions, insightful commentary, essays, book reviews, interviews, and educational resources. It is dedicated to investigating the foundational principles of a free society as reflected in law, history, political philosophy, and various cultural elements.

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What Should Be Said About China – Ralph L. DeFalco III

1 week ago | lawliberty.org | Tom Cotton |Gage Klipper |Tal Fortgang |James Diddams

In March, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released the 2025 Annual Threat Assessment (ATA). For the first time, the ATA identified the People’s Republic of China as the most capable threat actor that now confronts the United States. The reasons for ranking China as the top threat—militarily, economically, diplomatically, and informationally—are made clear in Seven Things You Can’t Say About China, a crisply written new book by US Senator Tom Cotton.
Consensus of the Conclave – John O. McGinnis

1 week ago | lawliberty.org | John O. McGinnis

Few elections command as much fascination as the secret conclave of cardinals gathering this week to choose the next pope. Catholics trust that the Holy Spirit guides this decision, yet the outcome still depends on carefully forged human rules. Chief among them is the centuries-old mandate that no candidate may be elected without winning the support of at least two-thirds of the electors. A mere majority does not suffice. The history and function of this rule are both intriguing and revealing.
From Ballots to Bots – Rachel Lomasky

1 week ago | lawliberty.org | Rachel Lomasky |Charles T. Rubin |Gage Klipper |Tal Fortgang

In his forum lead, Charles T. Rubin worries that turning human governance over to artificial general intelligence (AGI) will cause immense problems. The world, in particular the United States, has many incompetent government officials. We don’t need to worry, though, that soon some of them will be robot overlords—that technology is nowhere in sight.
Heroism in Banking Regulation – James E. Hartley

1 week ago | lawliberty.org | Mark Carlson |James Hartley |Gage Klipper

There has been much discussion of late about the role of independent regulatory agencies set up by the Federal government. The legislature makes laws, but someone has to figure out how to implement broad laws in particular cases. When it comes to areas requiring technical expertise, can and should the legislature set up agencies outside of the control of the executive branch? The Federal Reserve, created in 1913, is one of the oldest of these independent regulatory agencies.
Liberty Against Liberalism? – Max Skjönsberg

1 week ago | lawliberty.org | Quentin Skinner |Max Skjönsberg |Gage Klipper |James Diddams

Quentin Skinner is surely the most prominent living historian of political thought. In a career spanning over sixty years, Skinner has written about the history of political thought from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century. His oeuvre includes landmark studies on Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, and ideas of the state and liberty, as well as pathbreaking works on historical methodology and hermeneutics.
Liberty, Freemen, and Slaves – Aaron N. Coleman

1 week ago | lawliberty.org | Quentin Skinner |Aaron Coleman |Gage Klipper |James Diddams

In Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Idea, renowned historian Quentin Skinner traces how a republican vision of liberty, one all but forgotten today, was eclipsed by its modern, liberal counterpart. This is not his first foray into the idea of liberty. In 1998, he published Liberty before Liberalism; in 2008, he followed with Hobbes and Republican Liberty. Both books confined their examination of liberty’s meaning to mid-seventeenth-century England.
Mission Failure for Mickey 17 – Gage Klipper

2 weeks ago | lawliberty.org | Gage Klipper

Perhaps I got a little too excited when the trailer dropped for Mickey 17, the first film from acclaimed South Korean director Bong Joon Ho since his landmark Best Picture win in 2019. But can you blame me? Ho himself set expectations high. Hyper-stylized, perfectly cast, with an expertly suspenseful pacing that’s rarely been seen since Hitchcock, Parasite fully deserved to become the first foreign film to take home the Oscars’ top prize.
AI, Governance, and Our “Utopian” Future – Charles T. Rubin

2 weeks ago | lawliberty.org | Charles T. Rubin |John O. McGinnis |John C. Pinheiro |Reuven Brenner

Talking about artificial intelligence (AI) and governance at this particular moment is a daunting task. The capacities of AI are changing rapidly. While it is very likely we are in the midst of a hype cycle with respect to how reliable and useful AI can be today, the current large language models still have some impressive capacities. Everyone seems to expect more and better to come rapidly, either on the basis of those models or some other paradigm of AI.
A Free Speech Test for the Ivy League – Tal Fortgang

2 weeks ago | lawliberty.org | Tal Fortgang

When presidents from our top-ranked universities averred before a Congressional committee that they could not crack down on anti-Israel demonstrations last fall, their explanations fell flat. They claimed they were dedicated to the principles of free speech, academic freedom, and the pursuit of knowledge no matter how uncomfortable. Even calls for genocide could be protected depending on the context. That’s what robust free speech norms require.
Remembering the Revolution – Richard Alan Ryerson

2 weeks ago | lawliberty.org | Richard Alan Ryerson |John O. McGinnis |John C. Pinheiro |Daniel Mahoney

Four spirited responses to my short essay in Liberty & Law on the battles at Lexington and Concord at their 250th anniversary prove that no significant historical event, no matter how limited in time and space—in this case, to a single day, in a single Massachusetts county—can ever be fully explained or appreciated in ten pages, or in a hundred pages, by a single historian. If it could be, history would be a much simpler and much duller enterprise than it is.