Revolutionary violence is always an indictment of a political system’s democratic legitimacy.

Living in the “correct” cultural context, often in poverty, is apparently better for orphaned children than having loving, but white, American parents.

As confidence in the desirability of liberal order dwindles throughout much of the world, Huntington’s thesis appears to have come into its own.

Reparations arguments call for the kind of general racial classifications that have not been part of public law or finance since the Jim Crow era.

The most important goal of the leftist project is to use the twin 2020 tragedies to alter the very storyline of America.

Tenet presents the ultimate lesson of tragedy: Desire defeated returns as revenge.

If extraterrestrial sirens beckon, Daniel Deudney makes the case that we ought to tie ourselves to the mast.

The theory of the unitary executive is gaining traction in American law. That view of the Constitution asserts that the president controls whatever power is given to the executive branch of the federal government. As a result, the president must be able to dismiss his subordinate executives at will. Otherwise, these officials will be responsive to others or to themselves,…

In 1977, the French essayist, Jean-François Revel, published a tract with the title The Totalitarian Temptation. In it, he condemned the western intelligentsia’s faiblesse, which was at the same time dishonest, posturing, stupid, and evil, for Stalinist-style dictatorships. One might have thought—I certainly thought—that with the downfall of the Soviet Union, the totalitarian temptation had been exorcised once and for…

In May, Law & Liberty ran a forum debate on the nature of modern socialist thought. Prominent among the criticisms raised are points applicable to current leftist ideology overall: its historicism, relativism, and nihilism. I have certainly shared in this concern, noting this of the New York Times’ 1619 Project and of its editorial board’s exploitation of…