Great Law & Liberty write-up by Timothy Fuller of David Walsh’s overlooked classic The Growth of the Liberal Soul, which anticipated many of the criticisms of liberalism today but in a far more thoughtful and philosophically rich manner.

This is a great book. Highly relevant in the current debates. @lawliberty

Bill Buckley U.S. Postal Service stamp ceremony at Yale University today. Buckley Institute

Greg Collins joins the show to take a deep dive into Edmund Burke's views. Fair warning--this one gets nerdy in a hurry! youtube.com/watch?v=OpbBj1…

Revisiting a classic. Happy #ConstitutionDay!

The importance of the role of commerce in a growing empire: that's what reviewer Greg Collins says is the most compelling aspect of "Early English Tracts on Commerce". The editor, John Ramsay McCulloch, compiled his thoughts on the intersection of commerce and statecraft.

My 5-year-old just asked me how pencils are made and now I am tempted to read her this story tonight for bed.

The most entertaining and pithiest tract in the entire volume was “England’s Great Happiness; or a Dialogue between Content and Complaint.” Written in the form of a dialogue, it is no Plato’s Republic, but the writing constructs an insightful dialectic between an optimistic

Fascinating article by Adam MacLeod on the tension between private property and public accommodations law. Recommended for anyone teaching the Masterpiece Cakeshop and 303 Creative cases.

Maistre contra Rousseau (and by extension the social contract theorists): civil society is man's state of nature.

Law students, ditch the $1,000 law school textbook and get your hands on a free copy of this excellent summary of the U.S. Constitution generated by a budding 7-year-old con law scholar.

Publication day for Intellectual Conservatism! Edited by Ferenc Hörcher and me. Contributions by Phillip Blond, Lord Norton of Louth, Stuart Ball, Imogen Sinclair, Zeena 🕉️🇬🇧🇮🇳 , James Vitali, Matt Beech (Centre for British Politics) Christopher Fear, Bracy Bersnak and Sebastian Morello. Contents and link below🧵

Given the debates over whether free markets are "conservative," my next book project will provide a philosophical frame for conservative political economy that will weave in policy but also place sharper emphasis on the metaphysical/moral/religious roots of commercial order.

The importance of the role of commerce in a growing empire: that's what reviewer Greg Collins says is the most compelling aspect of "Early English Tracts on Commerce". The editor, John Ramsay McCulloch, compiled his thoughts on the intersection of commerce and statecraft.

See my review of this book here: ripg.uni-nke.hu/hirek/2025/05/…

I learned recently that almost half of my con law class had not heard of *NSYNC, and that a former con law student thought Justin Timberlake was the lead singer of the Backstreet Boys, and now I know I've failed as a millennial teacher.

As I teach the Reflections on the Revolution in France this week, my annual reminder of the most blasphemous sentence from Burke's pen:

Recently received this book on Burke and Fox by The Wall Street Journal’s James Grant. Looking forward to reviewing it for Independent Institute.