The Lemon Test just doubles down on the abstractions—and we would be better served to embrace a deeper originalism.

We ought to give serious consideration to the rises and falls, successes and failures, of people and polities across time and space.

The Federalist remains a fruitful object of study with the potential to enlighten our understanding of its time and our own.

Smith remains good law. Yet Fulton appears to have rewritten its meaning.

The common sense of Jewish wisdom is all the more powerful for its simplicity.

The repeated postliberal claim that America was founded upon an anthropology of expressive individualism finds no support in American political culture.

George Floyd's death was wrong, but even those who should know better have turned him into something he was not: a righteous martyr to a cause.

Central banks have contributed to serious macroeconomic problems while using their considerable discretion to fight financial fires.

In an increasingly egalitarian and democratic age, deference seems to be from another time.

Data and evidence cannot tell us what to do with them—that requires moral judgment.