McDowell makes a remarkable contribution to Milton scholarship by showing how choice and political circumstance shaped the rise of the epic poet.

Samuel Alito's speech shows that originalism will be the parole of the Court going forward, and that Alito will be the originalist of tradition.

Freedom likely does increase the amount of scholarship in the world. Whether that scholarship is valuable is a different question.

Demography is only destiny if we allow it to be, by accepting the left’s transformation of culture.

Is cynicism a powerful support for freedom, or a sign of terminal cultural illness?

The most fashionable ideas on the intellectual right—populism, nationalism, integralism—challenge the emphasis on freedom.

The Social Dilemma's conclusion that we are all helpless consumers, hoodwinked by big tech, is a depressing misunderstanding of humanity.

While enduring the tribulations of sectarian Liberalism, Catholics must have an alternative vision that prioritizes liberty on natural law grounds.

There are no dictionaries of sustainability's Newspeak. Its mavens rely less on new words than perverting or reversing the meaning of old ones.

Editor’s Note: This essay is based on remarks delivered for the Christian Legal Society at the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law on October 14, 2020 In his 2011 book, In Defense of Flogging, Peter Moskos proposes a thought experiment: faced with a choice between 10 brutal lashes from a cane and five years of hard […]