Claire Rydell Arcenas offers a comprehensive intellectual history of John Locke’s reception in America, but wrongly downplays his political influence.

Those concerned with left-wing tyranny today should find a better example than Joe McCarthy.

Rules protect us from arbitrariness, but they do not overcome our need for judgment and discretion.

The National Conservatism "Statement of Principles" looks exclusively to the political, and not to the religious, for social redemption.

Progressive Conservativism develops many good ideas, but they are not ones that voters, including Trump voters, actually want implemented.

The left’s hegemony in the legal academy is so total that opponents of originalism no longer feel it necessary to make an original (or convincing) case.

William McCormick discusses Thomas Aquinas, his intellectual influences, and the "hard work" of politics with James Patterson.

Though our attempts to create a biography of Homer are fruitless, the idea of Homer is eternal.

Dirck Coornhert's 1582 Synod on the Freedom of Conscience speaks to our polarized age.

Americans can't be united by our common adherence to democracy because we don't agree on what democracy is.