“Natural law” has a strong brand identity in Western philosophy, but even many of its critics affirm a moral realism essential to the concept.

As a new book on their travels together shows, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's friendship went beyond politics.

Casting our gaze into the past may help illuminate the legal status of birthright citizenship.

The twentieth century saw America discard representative government when it comes to war.

Across American history, church-state separation has protected churches from factional capture and state corruption.

The American people really are more complex (and interesting) than our current Manichaean style of politics.

A university is an institution for finding truth by reason. First Amendment doctrine aims at something different.

Every judge or legal scholar should have this book ready at hand.

Congressional revival is possible but must first overcome a matrix of polarization, fiscal plight, and democracy’s cultural decay.

The Iron Lady’s life after her premiership offers instructive lessons about the place of a retired politician in a democratic society.