Private Property, Liberalism, and Human Flourishing
Private property enables individuals to pursue happiness through their own free choices. It also shields our individual and institutional projects from arbitrary power.
Educational Polarization and the Politics of Young Men
Our political battle lines fall increasingly along our growing educational divide, in which young women are advancing, and young men are falling behind.
Federal Courts, Local Wrongs: Growing Federal Power Means Less Accountability
Federal agents have always had extensive immunities. Their growing presence in all of our lives makes that a growing problem. And the courts aren’t helping.
Liberalism and Christianity in the Age of Social Media
The liberal Christianity of the American founding came from authentic, in-person faith communities. Can it survive in a time of influencers and vertical video?
The “man of system” is a famous figure in the work of Adam Smith, and not in a good way. And yet we all think in systems. They can be both beautiful and helpful. What gives?
In every political system, wealthy and powerful people will try to write the rules to favor themselves. Liberal democracies should use a range of policy tools to resist elite capture.
Liberalism does best when there are strong intermediate institutions between the state and the individual. The family is the oldest of them, and it still has no substitutes.
Indigent defense is a key part of any decent criminal justice system. But in many places, the incentives for public defenders don’t point toward justice.
