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The Washington Post deserves our gratitude for its craven, contemptible decision not to endorse any presidential candidate. #WashingtonPost thehill.com/opinion/campai…

To the extent that Trumpism has any intellectual basis, it's that articulated by J.D. Vance, and Vance's principal philosophical guru appears to be Patrick Deneen. I explain what's wrong with Deneen, philosophically and at the policy level, here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf….

Trump isn't exactly a fascist. thehill.com/opinion/campai…

I got hissed at the Federalist Society, and then got them to abruptly stop. See youtube.com/watch?v=WJWdfI… at 1:39.

Jerome Copulsky’s “American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order” is an engaging historical survey of Christian theocratic opponents of American liberalism, from the American Revolution to the present. My review is newly posted on Lawfare: lawfaremedia.org/article/divine…

The cultural contradictions of wokeness — and anti-wokeness thehill.com/opinion/campai…

Prof. Eugene Volokh thinks that my work is "insightful" despite the fact that I'm "very much a man of the center-left." reason.com/volokh/2024/12…

I appeared on Chris Staron's Truce podcast, which examines the world from a Christian perspective. We explored the tensions that arise as Christians are increasingly drawn toward libertarianism. The conversation is here: trucepodcast.com/s6e18-how-libe…

Trump would have sent Jewish refugees back to Nazi Germany. Trump Administration Revokes Protections for Venezuelans in the U.S. nytimes.com/2025/02/02/us/…

Hadley Arkes's natural law arguments against gay rights and abortion neglect important aspects of the natural law tradition. journals.law.harvard.edu/jlpp/critiquin…

A compromise on emergency abortions that red states should embrace thehill.com/opinion/health…

I'm looking forward to participating in this online symposium on religion and secularism, run by Chicago-Kent Law, this Friday, Feb. 21. studentorgs.kentlaw.iit.edu/cklawreview/li…

On the ugly rhetoric of Dobbs v. Women's Health: wm.billofrightsjournal.org/wp-content/upl…

John Wilkes Booth was a racist murderer, but that apparently wasn’t the worst thing about him. The worst thing was that he used “the N-word.” thehill.com/opinion/civil-…

The principal virtue of Neil Gorsuch's new book is the light it unintentionally sheds on some of the Supreme Court’s least defensible decisions. lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-my…

Steve Vladeck is characteristically clear and accurate in explaining what the Supreme Court just did in the deportation cases. 140. The Disturbing Myopia of Trump v. J.G.G., by Steve Vladeck stevevladeck.com/p/140-the-dist…

Hegseth’s ‘Big Brother’ book purge models the worst of McCarthyism  thehill.com/opinion/civil-…

Who knew that Justice Samuel Alito was such a trusting person? thehill.com/opinion/judici…

For those who are interested, a somewhat specialized conversation between myself, Michael McConnell, and Vincent Phillip Muñoz on originalism and religious exemptions: civitasinstitute.org/research/relig…

It’s refreshing to hear Bill Gates say it about Elon Musk: “the world’s richest man has been involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children.” nytimes.com/2025/05/08/mag…