Liberty Law Talk

Senior writer James Hankins joins Law & Liberty's editor John Grove to discuss the past, present, and (bright?) future of higher education.

Charles C. W. Cooke, Samuel Goldman, and Stephanie Slade discuss and debate fusionism—what it is and how it speaks to our time.

Christine Rosen, author of the new book The Extinction of Experience, explains why we all need to touch grass.

Frederick Hess and Michael McShane discuss the changing landscape of K-12 school reform and the state of higher education.

Helen Dale joins the Law & Liberty Podcast to talk about Australia's sporting prowess and England's political turmoil.

Yuval Levin joins the Law & Liberty Podcast to talk about the Constitution, conflict, and his new book, American Covenant.

John McGinnis and Adam White discuss the blockbuster cases of the recent term.

The paradigm we use to understand religious liberty issues in education may be shifting.

The Bard can teach those in Washington, DC a thing or two about gaining, maintaining, and losing power.

The Assyrians created a toolkit that would be used by future empires.

Wokeness threatens to destroy comedy—and people's lives.

Classical architecture is widely seen as the embodiment of our democracy.

Rebecca Burgess is joined by Frank Cogliano to discuss Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, and the Jeffersonian legacy.  Brian Smith: Welcome to Liberty Law Talk. This podcast is a production of the online journal, Law & Liberty, and hosted by our staff. Please visit us at lawliberty.org, and thank you for listening. Rebecca Burgess: We know this […]

Most people want to live in a just society. But that doesn't correspond to contemporary social justice activism.

You invite disaster when you embed a lie at the heart of an institution or law.

Freedom Conservatism rejects the idea that politics is the divvying up of spoils in a zero-sum world.

The controversy surrounding recent judicial reforms reflects deep and longstanding divisions on the role courts in Israeli society.

As attacks on its legitimacy intensified, the Court issued important opinions on free speech, the administrative state, and our colorblind Constitution.

The cultural and racial discourse of the West increasingly distorts our moral judgment and self-understanding.

The American founders inherited a rich tradition from the classical and Christian world.

From Plutarch to Kissinger, we continue to learn from studying the lives of great statesmen.

Whether you're looking at the Romans or today, perceiving difference is difficult yet essential for understanding our world.

In the twentieth century, various intellectual factions struggled to define how conservatism should respond to a transformed constitutional order.

By helping us recover a sense of the tragic, the classics can temper our expectations for political endeavors.

Kennedy's brief presidency came at a pivotal time for civil rights, the Cold War, and American Catholicism.

The handoff from Bush to Obama gives us a glimpse into post-9/11 foreign policy and the requirements for an orderly transfer of power.

Ninety years ago today, Wilhelm Röpke confronted an audience in Frankfurt am Main about where Hitler was leading Germany.

In the Islamic world and in the West. education must teach students how to confront both modernity and radical attempts to re-enchant the world.

Israel tends to make American headlines only for violence and geopolitics. But there's much more to the Jewish nation.

Gordon S. Wood joins Brian A. Smith to discuss his most recent book, Power and Liberty, as well as trends in the study of history.

The trouble with many defenses of the West or the classics is that they don't succeed in persuading people to return to the texts.

An ancient inscription gives us a peek into the rise and reign of a Bronze Age king, and a sense of the thin line between order and chaos.

John Foster Dulles represented the apex of liberal mainline Protestantism's influence on American power and policy.

Kevin R. C. Gutzman joins Liberty Law Talk to discuss his latest book, The Jeffersonians.

Just how anti-state should libertarianism be?

Despite having the better economic arguments, classical liberals have failed to make the public case for free markets. How can they turn things around?

How compatible are East and West?

Vincent Phillip Muñoz discusses the natural rights foundations of religious freedom.

Nicholas Eberstadt discusses the phenomenon of workless American men with host Samuel Gregg.

James Bruce joins the podcast to discuss the challenges of faithful translation and how our sense of justice shapes our understanding of God.

Brian A. Smith talks with Samuel Gregg about his new book The Next American Economy.

William McCormick discusses Thomas Aquinas, his intellectual influences, and the "hard work" of politics with James Patterson.

James Otteson talks with Samuel Gregg about Adam Smith's understudied Lectures on Jurisprudence.

John McGinnis discusses Dobbs, Bruen, and the Supreme Court's originalist turn.

A discussion with Christopher Owen, author of Heaven Can Indeed Fall.

Michael Rentz joins Liberty Law Talk to discuss the global supply chain at its breaking point.

Sam Gregg reviews a country in crisis.

Scott Lincicome considers the full set of issues that make industrial policy an untenable, unworkable solution for any country that wants economic growth.

Allen Guelzo tells us about the life of Robert E. Lee.

James Hankins outlines a path forward on an education that prepares students for a life of dignified freedom and citizenship.

Philip Hamburger discusses how the government bypasses the Constitution and the rule of law to secure our submission to its will.