The Nation and the Bible
My good friend at First Things, editor R.R. Reno, ruminates in this month’s print issue on “Christian Universalism and the Nation.” Against Christians who make too easy a jump from the universalism...
View ArticleWhat Lord Acton Can Teach Us about Nationalism
Nationalism is, as we all know it, one of the most hotly debated issues these days. A rather surprising turn of events after some had predicted the end of the nation itself, replaced by a world of...
View ArticleToward a Renewed Liberal Nationalism?
Nationalism is currently enjoying an unprecedented revival. From the UK to the US to Eastern Europe it is being embraced by the electorate as a direct result of a political, social, and intellectual...
View ArticleIs Canada’s Liberal Nationalist Regime Ending?
Canada’s recent election disappointed those who sought a decisive result one way or the other. Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party will survive as a minority government, albeit with the smallest...
View ArticleSeeking the Heart of the Nation
Most contemporary discussions about identity rarely resolve anything of significance since they are devoted to the advancement of identitarian politics. The focus on identity tends to reduce people...
View ArticleLaw & Liberty’s Top Forums of 2019
Since the inception of our site, Law & Liberty has published a monthly Forum. There, we gather writers to discuss controversial books, movements, and ideas of importance to the conversation about...
View ArticleLiberalism Needs the Nation
In his response to Carl Schmitt’s Concept of the Political, Leo Strauss observed that Schmitt’s “critique of liberalism occurs in the horizon of liberalism.” Much the same might be said of our current...
View ArticleOvercoming the Elites
Richard Reinsch has done us a service in his review and podcast interview on Christopher Caldwell’s astonishing new book The Age of Entitlement. He shows that conservatives, indeed all Americans, need...
View ArticleWill South Africa Fall?
In few countries does the recent past weigh more heavily than in South Africa. It was not to be expected that when the peaceful handover of power from the apartheid regime to the African National...
View ArticleBurke as American Nationalist?
Edmund Burke has enjoyed a long and varied afterlife in America. Lately, though, his name has increasingly come to be associated with the “new nationalist” strand of conservatism. The foundation that...
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