The Crafting of the Fourteenth Amendment
Several years ago, after driving past the impressively proportioned Harrison County Courthouse in my hometown of Cadiz for the hundredth time, I thought I...
A Genuinely Original Libertarian Argument?
Yesterday evening, I participated in a symposium sponsored in part by Northfield School of the Liberal Arts, a private Christian academy, here in Wichita,...
American Political Praxis
What words best describe present-day Washington politics? The commonplace answer, endlessly repeated by politicians themselves and media observers alike, is this: dysfunction, gridlock, partisanship,...
Liberty and Circuits of the Sacred
A few days ago was the first time I heard Chinese being spoken with a heavy Indian accent. Given the tenor of our times,...
McClaughry Memoir: The Thousand Points of Light
The following is the final installment of John McClaughry’s memoir, Promoting Civil Society Among the Heathen. See the previous chapter here.
8. George H.W. Bush and the...
McClaughry Memoir: The Reagan Years
The following is the fourth installment of John McClaughry’s memoir, Promoting Civil Society Among the Heathen. See the previous chapter here.
7. Ronald Reagan
Now let’s backtrack...
McClaughry Memoir: Ford and Carter
The following is the third installment of John McClaughry’s memoir, Promoting Civil Society Among the Heathen. See the previous chapters here and here.
5. Ford and...
McClaughry Memoir: The Nixon Years
The following is the second installment of John McClaughry's memoir, Promoting Civil Society Among the Heathen. See the previous chapters here.
3. The Community Self Determination...
Gettysburg at 150: Some Essays
Holland, MI
My wife will be the first to point out that I’m not much of one for marking anniversaries, but it seems - to...
The Triumph of the Liberal State
First published in Dutch as De triomf van de liberale staat in the anthology Essays Over Het Midden (Groningen, The Netherlands: Uitgeverij de Blauwe Tijger, 2013)
It was sometime back in...