Podcasts by Liberty Law Talk
All episodes
Studying Patton from 2022-04-15T01:13:35
Furman Daniel discusses the life and mind of Gen. George S. Patton
Listen
Will We Be Sino-formed? from 2022-04-05T21:25:54
China has no desire for war or military confrontation with America. It does desire global economic domination in many respects.
Listen
Conservative Nationalism and American Statecraft from 2022-03-15T01:05:07
Colin Dueck discusses his new book, Age of Iron, with Richard Reinsch
Listen
Willmoore Kendall‘s Democratic Faith from 2022-01-31T18:46:54
A discussion with Christopher Owen, author of Heaven Can Indeed Fall.
Listen
Grappling With Logistics from 2021-12-23T16:10:49
Michael Rentz joins Liberty Law Talk to discuss the global supply chain at its breaking point.
Listen
Understanding Lee from 2021-12-02T14:45:36
Allen Guelzo tells us about the life of Robert E. Lee.
Listen
Industrial Policy Dreams Perpetually Deferred from 2021-12-01T13:06:18
Scott Lincicome considers the full set of issues that make industrial policy an untenable, unworkable solution for any country that wants economic growth.
Listen
History of Violence: A Conversation with Barry Latzer from 2021-11-11T17:54:54
This podcast with criminologist Barry Latzer focuses on the surprising findings in his latest book, The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America. Latzer discusses the violent crime wave that&...
Listen
Provoking an Educational Renaissance from 2021-11-01T13:24:40
James Hankins outlines a path forward on an education that prepares students for a life of dignified freedom and citizenship.
Listen
Abusing the Power of the Purse from 2021-10-15T14:52:53
Philip Hamburger discusses how the government bypasses the Constitution and the rule of law to secure our submission to its will.
Listen
The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly from 2021-10-13T14:41:10
In this episode of Liberty Law Talk, I discuss with Professor John Inazu his new book Liberty’s Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly. Inazu offers his thoughts on resurrecting this most ...
Listen
The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly from 2021-10-13T14:41:10
In this episode of Liberty Law Talk, I discuss with Professor John Inazu his new book Liberty’s Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly. Inazu offers his thoughts on resurrecting this most ...
Listen
The Collapse of American Legal Authority from 2021-10-01T12:20:26
Steven Smith discusses his book Fiction, Lies, and the Authority of Law.
Listen
Understanding Black Lives Matter from 2021-10-01T12:19:59
Mike Gonzalez discusses his new book BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution.
Listen
Achieving America's Peace from 2021-09-22T14:42:46
Angelo Codevilla comes to Liberty Law Talk to discuss his latest book To Make and Keep Peace Among Ourselves and with All Nations. Our conversation focuses on Codevilla’s main argument that Am...
Listen
The Revised Version of American Religious Freedom: A Conversation with Steven Smith from 2021-09-13T19:09:08
This next episode of Liberty Law Talk is with Steven Smith on his new book The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom. Our conversation explores Smith’s challenge to the dominant acad...
Listen
Supreme Court Roundup 2020-21 from 2021-08-31T20:57:23
Richard Reinsch (00:19): Hello, and welcome to Liberty Law Talk I’m Richard Reinsch. Today we’re talking with John McGinnis about the recently concluded Supreme Court term of 2020 and 2...
Listen
American Heresies and the Betrayal of the National Interest: A Conversation with Walter McDougall from 2021-08-20T20:34:10
Walter McDougall discusses how America's civil religion has shaped our foreign policy.
Listen
How to be a Conservative from 2021-08-16T18:12:17
Editor’s Note: This podcast was originally posted on October 13, 2014. This conversation with Roger Scruton engages his defense of the conservative disposition. Scruton’s just-released book, ...
Listen
How to be a Conservative from 2021-08-16T18:12:17
Editor’s Note: This podcast was originally posted on October 13, 2014. This conversation with Roger Scruton engages his defense of the conservative disposition. Scruton’s just-released book, ...
Listen
Planning the Great Society from 2021-07-27T14:32:47
Is it true what they say about planning and centralized government power?
Listen
Restless Amidst Prosperity and Freedom from 2021-07-15T11:10:41
Ben Storey discusses the thinkers who unlock the misery and greatness of middle class democratic souls.
Listen
Led by Truth, Inspired by Beauty from 2021-06-30T12:31:05
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn counsels a return to classical philosophy in order for us to live well.
Listen
Why the Framers'Intentions Matter from 2021-06-14T19:05:31
Donald Drakeman discusses his new book The Hollow Core of Constitutional Theory which argues the intentions of the framers should be paramount.
Listen
Rebuilding a Culture of Academic Freedom from 2021-06-01T14:45:06
Keith Whittington discusses the work of the Academic Freedom Alliance.
Listen
Liberalism and the Family from 2021-05-14T10:40:04
Scott Yenor discusses his new book The Recovery of Family Life
Listen
Robert Nisbet, Community Organizer from 2021-05-03T10:38:33
Mark Mitchell discusses the achievement of Robert Nisbet
Listen
Prospects for Inflation from 2021-04-15T10:25:57
What will result from America's current spending and debt bender?
Listen
How the Framers Made the Presidency from 2021-03-31T21:02:20
Michael McConnell converses about his latest book, The President Who Would Not Be King.
Listen
Why Patriotism Matters from 2021-03-15T11:33:26
Steven Smith discusses the humane loyalty of patriotism that he presents in his new book Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes.
Listen
Reading Exodus from 2021-03-13T22:41:27
Leon Kass's new book shares a lifetime of reading and teaching the book of Exodus.
Listen
Boomer Nation from 2021-03-01T13:44:57
Helen Andrews speaks of our beloved baby boomers and how they remade America.
Listen
The Myth of an Independent Federal Reserve: A Conversation with Peter Conti-Brown from 2021-02-25T22:41:33
Peter Conti-Brown of the Wharton School comes to Liberty Law Talk to discuss his most recent book, The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve.
Listen
Burke's Moral Economy from 2021-02-01T13:40:37
"Edmund Burke discerned poetry in the elusive motions of Britain's internal grain trade."
Listen
The Law of Bioethics and the Human Person from 2021-01-03T15:58:12
Carter Snead discusses his new book, What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics
Listen
Rōnin Without Masters: A Never Trump Assessment from 2020-12-21T16:19:46
Steven Teles discusses his excellent study of the Never Trump movement, its players, and how they left the fold of their party.
Listen
The Delusions of the Ideologue and the Wisdom of the Statesman: A Conversation with Greg Weiner from 2020-12-21T12:43:15
Greg Weiner returns to Liberty Law Talk to discuss what it means to be an Old Whig.
Listen
Czars in America from 2020-12-17T21:58:32
This next edition of Liberty Law Talk is a conversation with Mitchel Sollenberger and Mark Rozell on the use of ‘czars’ by American Presidents. Sollenberger and Rozell are authors of The President’...
Listen
The Economy after COVID-19 from 2020-12-10T13:54:38
Arnold Kling on the opportunities and challenges that are ahead for America's post-COVID 19 economy.
Listen
The Spiritual Quest of Identity Politics from 2020-11-24T12:27:39
Joshua Mitchell discusses the spiritual scapegoating and claims of innocence and power in the burgeoning identity politics movement.
Listen
The Founders'Senate from 2020-11-11T12:13:32
Todd Zywicki explores how the Founders envisioned the Senate and why indirect election of its members was a key component in its operation.
Listen
It's ACB's Seat Now from 2020-10-31T13:00:35
John McGinnis discusses what newly appointed Justice Amy Coney Barrett will mean for the dynamics of the Supreme Court.
Listen
How the West Was Lost from 2020-10-15T11:11:45
Stanley Kurtz discusses how the same arguments made in the 90s for ending Western Civilization courses are now dominating our public discourse on race.
Listen
Dan Mahoney Announces the"Liberty and Justice for All"Project from 2020-10-12T12:30:25
Dan Mahoney on "Liberty and Justice for All's" defense of constitutionalism, the rule of law, & the fundamental nobility of the American proposition.
Listen
Losing Washington from 2020-10-01T12:30:12
The reason we have representative government is because of our founding generation. The most prominent figure in that generation is Washington.
Listen
Walker Percy in the Ruins: A Conversation with Brian Smith from 2020-09-16T17:20:07
Why we need Walker Percy's diagnosis of what ails the contemporary soul.
Listen
The Don and the Constitution from 2020-09-15T12:32:48
John Yoo makes the argument for how President Trump has defended constitutional doctrines and laws during his first term.
Listen
Canceled at Cal Berkeley from 2020-09-01T12:41:43
What Steven Hayward learned from getting canceled at UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy.
Listen
The Works and Days of Thomas More from 2020-08-03T13:30:41
Thomas More understood as a lawyer and a judge that liberty was justice through the rule of law ordered towards the good of the people.
Listen
Publius's Constitution, Now More than Ever from 2020-07-28T13:04:12
All governments not based on the consent of the governed are not legitimate, not truly popular, not truly republican governments.
Listen
A Revolutionary Moment? from 2020-06-26T14:10:15
Daniel Mahoney discusses the sober and tough-minded liberalism you can believe in during a time of widespread unrest, anger, and sadness.
Listen
Is the Future Postliberal? from 2020-06-12T17:37:03
Fr. Robert Sirico on the challenges to ordered liberty in America from the illiberal Left and Right.
Listen
Bureaucracy, Regulation, and the Unmanly Contempt for the Constitution from 2020-06-04T17:41:35
John Marini unmasks the century-long effort to undermine the Constitution's distribution of power.
Listen
America in the Dock from 2020-05-15T12:11:47
Robert Reilly explores the ideas that made America possible in his new book, America on Trial.
Listen
How the Academics Made Progressivism All-American from 2020-05-01T10:51:21
The academics made hostility to the Founders' Constitution a domesticated notion.
Listen
Rumors of the Death of the American Dream Are Greatly Exaggerated from 2020-04-15T11:37:11
Michael Strain on why the economics of America are surprisingly good and why we should stop listening to the naysayers.
Listen
Crisis of the Roberts Court from 2020-04-01T12:05:36
Michael Greve discusses the daunting prospects for the Roberts Court in a closely divided country.
Listen
Liberalism and the Death Penalty from 2020-03-31T17:20:47
Craig Lerner discusses the political, philosophical, and moral implications of the death penalty.
Listen
America, Land of Deformed Institutions from 2020-03-31T17:19:38
Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.
Listen
Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics? from 2020-03-31T17:18:55
Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.
Listen
Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism? from 2020-03-31T17:18:01
Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.
Listen
Stuck With Decadence from 2020-03-31T17:17:08
Ross Douthat discusses his new book, The Decadent Society.
Listen
"Slouching Towards Mar-a-Lago:"A Conversation with Andrew Bacevich from 2020-03-18T00:26:13
Andrew Bacevich discusses his new book Twilight of the American Century
Listen
Lord Liverpool&the British Tradition of Strategic Independence: A Conversation with William Anthony Hay from 2020-03-10T18:17:25
William Anthony Hay talks about Lord Liverpool's excellent statesmanship.
Listen
Born-Again Paganism: A Conversation with Steven Smith from 2020-03-10T18:16:39
Steven Smith talks with Richard Reinsch about his provocative thesis that a modern form of paganism is becoming public orthodoxy.
Listen
Dismantling the Leftist Academic Complex: A Conversation with Roger Scruton from 2020-03-10T17:59:26
Scruton's crime was to have attempted to take the New Left seriously, finding it severely wanting, if not absurd.
Listen
Borne Back to the American Founding: A Conversation with George Will from 2020-03-10T17:57:43
George Will discusses the meaning of the Conservative Sensibility in American politics.
Listen
Liberalism as Armed Doctrine: A Conversation with Philip Hamburger from 2020-03-10T17:56:09
Philip Hamburger joins us to discuss his new book Liberal Suppression
Listen
The Politics of Judicial Review: A Conversation with Keith Whittington from 2020-03-10T17:48
Keith Whittington discusses his reassessment of judicial review in his new book Repugnant Laws
Listen
The Logos of Western Civilization: A Conversation with Sam Gregg from 2020-03-10T17:46:05
Sam Gregg explores how the West is built on the union of the God of the Philosophers and the God of the Bible.
Listen
Dissecting the Trump-Russia Investigations: A Conversation with Andrew McCarthy from 2020-03-10T17:37:34
Andrew McCarthy discusses the investigations of the Trump campaign's alleged collusion with the Russian government.
Listen
How Sheen, King,& Falwell Changed American Politics from 2020-03-10T17:35:18
James Patterson talks about three legendary clergymen in America and how they shaped our public discourse.
Listen
Justifying Originalism from 2020-03-10T17:30:53
Originalism provides the surest way to access the Constitution's legal meaning and then to implement it over time.
Listen
Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution from 2020-03-10T17:27:55
Greg Weiner discusses the difference between the political constitution and the judicial constitution.
Listen
The Populist Presidency vs. The Founders'Presidency from 2020-03-04T16:03:01
Stephen Knott discusses the immense revolution in power that has remade the American presidency over the past century.
Listen
Managing Whiteshift from 2020-01-12T10:55:40
A discussion with Eric Kaufmann about white majorities and the future of politics in western democracies.
Listen
Brexit Shenanigans and the Old English Constitution from 2020-01-12T10:55:40
Helen Dale discusses Brexit, the English Constitution, and the future of British politics.
Listen
An Invitation to the Land of Hope: A Conversation with Bill McClay from 2020-01-12T10:55:40
Bill McClay talks with Richard Reinsch about his new book, Land of Hope.
Listen
Politics as War: A Conversation with David Davenport from 2020-01-12T10:55:39
David Davenport discusses how we lost "the cool, deliberate sense of the community" in making public policy and embraced the war metaphor.
Listen
Why Higher Education Is a Cartel: A Conversation with Todd Zywicki from 2020-01-12T10:55:38
Todd Zywicki joins this episode to discuss the bad economics and perverse regulatory framework of higher education.
Listen
Fear God. Honor the Emperor. A Conversation with Robert Louis Wilken from 2020-01-12T10:55:38
Robert Louis Wilken discusses his new book Liberty in the Things of God.
Listen
The Economic Nationalism Agenda: A Conversation with Daniel McCarthy from 2020-01-12T10:55:38
Daniel McCarthy makes the case for a new conservative agenda rooted in an aggressive industrial policy.
Listen
Decentralization and the Common Good: A Conversation with Andy Smarick from 2020-01-12T10:55:38
Andy Smarick discusses Hayek, subsidiarity, and the principles of authentic decentralization.
Listen
Beautiful Losers in American Politics: A Conversation with Nicole Mellow from 2020-01-12T10:55:38
Nicole Mellow on the beautiful losers in American politics who have redefined the country.
Listen
The Sacred Rites of Humanity: A Conversation with Daniel Mahoney from 2020-01-12T10:55:37
Daniel Mahoney discusses his new book The Idol of Our Age and how humanitarianism corrupts politics and religion.
Listen
The John Marshall Legacy: A Conversation with Richard Brookhiser from 2020-01-12T10:55:37
Richard Brookhiser discusses the life and jurisprudence of John Marshall.
Listen
Andrew Jackson in Context: A Conversation with Bradley Birzer from 2020-01-12T10:55:37
Once considered one of our most consequential presidents, Andrew Jackson's reputation has now fallen on hard times.
Listen
Hamilton, Madison, and American Oligarchy: A Conversation with Jay Cost from 2020-01-12T10:55:37
Jay Cost, author of The Price of Greatness, discusses the political and economic debates between Hamilton and Madison.
Listen
Knowledge, Risk, and the Surprised Banker: A Conversation with Alex Pollock from 2020-01-12T10:55:37
Alex Pollock discusses the philosophy of finance and why the quant guys keep getting it wrong.
Listen
Getting Right with Nationalism: A Conversation with Yoram Hazony from 2020-01-12T10:55:37
Yoram Hazony discusses why nationalism produces a politics of freedom, prosperity, and peace.
Listen
How Prosperity Is Improving the World of Work: A Conversation with John Tamny from 2020-01-12T10:55:37
John Tamny on the positive evolution of work under economic growth.
Listen
Is Relativism the Best Constitutional Defense of Free Speech? A Conversation with Hadley Arkes from 2020-01-12T10:55:37
Hadley Arkes discusses the rights and duties of freedom of speech.
Listen
Galileo's Trial: A Conversation with Dom Paschal Scotti from 2020-01-12T10:55:37
Dom Paschal Scotti discusses the facts, personalities, and ideas of the Galileo case.
Listen
The Administrative State under Trump: A Conversation with Adam White from 2020-01-12T10:55:36
Adam White discusses President Trump's attempt to rein in regulatory state power.
Listen
The Rivalry and Friendship of Jefferson and Adams: A Conversation with Gordon Wood from 2020-01-12T10:55:35
Gordon Wood discusses his book Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Listen
"God Bless America"and Other Songs I Learned from Immigrants: A Conversation with Wilfred McClay from 2020-01-12T10:55:35
Wilfred McClay discusses our mixed patriotism.
Listen
Freedom and American Higher Education: A Conversation with Keith Whittington from 2020-01-12T10:55:35
Keith Whittington makes the case for academic freedom.
Listen
The Solid Ground of Mere Civility: A Conversation with Teresa Bejan from 2020-01-12T10:55:35
Teresa Bejan discusses with us how early modern debates over religious toleration are an example of how we can disagree well.
Listen
Leading a Worthy Life in a Scattered Time: A Conversation with Leon Kass from 2020-01-12T10:55:35
Leon Kass discusses Leading a Worthy Life.
Listen
Eric Voegelin Studies: A Conversation with Charles Embry from 2020-01-12T10:55:35
What did "Don't immanentize the eschaton!" really mean? An intro podcast on the formidable mind of Eric Voegelin.
Listen
Republican Virtue, Interrupted: A Conversation with Frank Buckley from 2020-01-12T10:55:35
The real conflict in our politics centers on reforming massive levels of public corruption.
Listen
Did Liberalism Fail? A Conversation with Patrick Deneen from 2020-01-12T10:55:35
Patrick Deneen argues that “Liberalism has failed—not because it fell short—but because it was true to itself.”
Listen
Presidential Rhetoric and the Challenge to American Constitutionalism: A Conversation with Jeffrey Tulis from 2020-01-12T10:55:34
Have changes in the style and manner of presidential rhetoric in the 20th century served us well?
Listen
Debating the Thorniest Issues: A Conversation with Peter Schuck from 2020-01-12T10:55:34
Debating Poverty, Immigration, Racial Preferences, Campaign Finance, and Religious Freedom with Peter Schuck, author of One Nation Undecided.
Listen
Luther's Rebellion: A Conversation with Brad Gregory from 2020-01-12T10:55:34
Martin Luther launched a religious revolution that shaped the modern world in ways that he never intended.
Listen
The Great Libertarian versus Conservative Debate: A Conversation with Nathan Schlueter and Nikolai Wenzel from 2020-01-12T10:55:34
What principles really divide libertarians and conservatives?
Listen
Music, Memory, and the Sound of Sacrifice: A Conversation with Mark Helprin from 2020-01-12T10:55:34
Acclaimed novelist and foreign policy thinker Mark Helprin returns to Liberty Law Talk to discuss his most recent novel, Paris in the Present Tense.
Listen
Can Congress Govern? A Conversation with David Mayhew from 2020-01-12T10:55:34
Distinguished congressional scholar David Mayhew discusses his latest book, The Imprint of Congress, on how Congress has balanced the presidency and legitimated our federal government for a divided...
Listen
What's the Alt-Right? A Conversation with George Hawley from 2020-01-12T10:55:34
George Hawley joins our discussion to talk about his new book, Making Sense of the Alt-Right. We talk about the Alt-Right’s power—real and imagined—its political goals, and the composition of...
Listen
The Challenges to Constitutional Government: A Conversation with Michael Greve from 2020-01-12T10:55:33
Federalism and administrative state maestro Michael Greve, a regular contributor to Law and Liberty, returns to discuss with us the crises American constitutional government is facing today.
Listen
The Constitution and Prosecutor Mueller: A Conversation with Mike Rappaport from 2020-01-12T10:55:33
Mike Rappaport joins us to discuss Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of the Trump administration and what the Constitution has to say about it.
Listen
After ISIS: A Conversation with Robert Reilly from 2020-01-12T10:55:33
Robert Reilly, author of the Closing of the Muslim Mind and a veteran information specialist in the Iraq War, talks about the future of Islamic terrorism in the wake of ISIS’s territorial dem...
Listen
Introducing Originalism: A Conversation with Ilan Wurman from 2020-01-12T10:55:33
Ilan Wurman joins this edition of Liberty Law Talk to discuss his new book, A Debt against the Living: An Introduction to Originalism.
Listen
The Peronist Pope Francis: A Conversation with Daniel Mahoney from 2020-01-12T10:55:32
Daniel Mahoney discusses Pope Francis's approach to the papacy and world politics.
Listen
The Personal Is Always Political: A Conversation with David Walsh from 2020-01-12T10:55:32
Who is the human person and has modern philosophy given us a truncated understanding of the person? Those are some of the questions put to philosopher David Walsh as we discuss his latest book, Pol...
Listen
Rights, Duties, and the American Republic: A Conversation with Thomas West from 2020-01-12T10:55:32
Thomas West, author of the new book, The Political Theory of the American Founding, joins us to talk natural rights and how they shaped our Constitution.
Listen
How the Great War Changed America: A Conversation with Richard Gamble from 2020-01-12T10:55:32
This year marks the one hundredth anniversary of America’s entry into World War I: “the war to end all wars.” Richard Gamble, author of The War for Righteousness, joins this editi...
Listen
Is Globalization in Retreat? A Conversation with Samuel Gregg from 2020-01-12T10:55:32
Samuel Gregg, Director of Research at the Acton Institute, returns to Liberty Law Talk to discuss the prospects for globalization in the wake of populist uprisings in many western democracies.
Listen
Brexit Prospects: A Conversation with Theodore Dalrymple from 2020-01-12T10:55:31
Law and Liberty regular and essayist extraordinaire Theodore Dalrymple visits Liberty Law Talk to discuss Brexit, the EU, and rising nationalist currents in the West.
Listen
Understanding Relational Persons: A Conversation with Roger Scruton from 2020-01-12T10:55:31
Returning to Liberty Law Talk is Roger Scruton to discuss his latest book, On Human Nature.
Listen
The Radical Jefferson: A Conversation with Kevin Gutzman from 2020-01-12T10:55:31
In this edition of Liberty Law Talk historian Kevin Gutzman discusses his latest book, Thomas Jefferson—Revolutionary. We focus on Jefferson’s account of federalism, conscience rights, educat...
Listen
Is the Roberts Court Really Supreme Court Inc? from 2020-01-12T10:55:31
This discussion with Jonathan Adler assesses the Roberts Court on “business” law cases. Is it true, as we’ve been told by Jeffrey Rosen, among others, that this Court is uniquely ...
Listen
James Burnham and Our'Soul-Sick'Elite: A Conversation with Julius Krein from 2020-01-12T10:55:31
Comes now to Liberty Law Talk, Julius Krein, founding editor of the explosive new journal, American Affairs. We discuss the crack-up in our politics and in the conservative movement through the len...
Listen
When Moderation Is a Virtue: A Conversation with Aurelian Craiutu from 2020-01-12T10:55:31
Barry Goldwater famously told the Republican National Convention in 1964 that “extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice and … moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue....
Listen
America, What's Left of It: A Conversation with Patrick Deneen from 2020-01-12T10:55:31
Patrick Deneen joins this edition of Liberty Law Talk to discuss his latest book, Conserving America? Essays on Present Discontents.
Listen
Patriot Fight Club: A Conversation with Steven Hayward from 2020-01-12T10:55:31
How did key participants in Straussian fight club, especially Harry Jaffa and Walter Berns, challenge the progressive settlement of political science, the history of the American Founding, and cons...
Listen
Higher Education and the American Soul: A Conversation with Peter Lawler from 2020-01-12T10:55:31
This edition of Liberty Law Talk is a conversation with Peter Lawler about his new position as editor of Modern Age and his just released book, American Heresies and Higher Education.
Listen
The Unjustly Neglected Roger Sherman: A Conversation with Mark David Hall from 2020-01-12T10:55:30
This edition of Liberty Law Talk is a discussion with Mark David Hall about American framer Roger Sherman who was the only framer to sign the Articles of Association, the Declaration of Independenc...
Listen
The Crisis of American Conservatism: A Conversation with George Nash from 2020-01-12T10:55:30
The great historian of American conservatism, George Nash, returns to Liberty Law Talk to discuss the current state of conservatism after the improbable victory of Donald Trump.
Listen
After Obamacare: A Conversation with Josh Blackman from 2020-01-12T10:55:30
This edition of Liberty Law Talk discusses with Josh Blackman his latest book, Unraveled: Obamacare, Religious Liberty, and Executive Power. Professor Blackman has been engaged with Obamacare since...
Listen
Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois: A Conversation with Steven Smith from 2020-01-12T10:55:30
This discussion with Steven Smith, author of Modernity and Its Discontents, explores what it means to be modern and why an age that has produced so many gains and advances has also produced so many...
Listen
Is the Chinese Government in Late-Stage Regime Decay? A Conversation with Minxin Pei from 2020-01-12T10:55:30
Pei's account breaks with current wisdom by focusing on a decadent ruling class mismanaging China towards disaster.
Listen
Rebuilding the Liberty Narrative: A Conversation with Gordon Lloyd from 2020-01-12T10:55:29
There is nothing more arduous than the apprenticeship of liberty, Tocqueville informs. While equality in modern democratic society is a natural tendency—one that grows without much effort—it is lib...
Listen
The Decline of Constitutional Morality: A Conversation with Bruce Frohnen from 2020-01-12T10:55:29
Is America in a constitutional crisis or is the country already post-constitutional and merely adjusting to a regime of quasi-law? Bruce Frohnen joins this edition of Liberty Law Talk to discuss th...
Listen
Liberal Democracy's Challenge to Freedom: A Conversation with Ryszard Legutko from 2020-01-12T10:55:29
The great Polish political theorist, anti-communist thinker and member of Solidarity, Minister of Education, Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the late President Lech Kaczynski, and Deputy S...
Listen
Freedom and the Natural Law: A Conversation with John Lawrence Hill from 2020-01-12T10:55:29
Is the natural law necessary for any enduring consideration of freedom and responsibility? Answering in the affirmative is John Lawrence Hill who joins us in this edition of Liberty Law Talk to dis...
Listen
Reviving Pluralism: A Conversation with John Inazu from 2020-01-12T10:55:28
John Inazu has emerged as one of the leading scholars on freedom of association and religious freedom. His earlier book, Liberty’s Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly revived our unders...
Listen
America and the Word: A Conversation with Mark Noll from 2020-01-12T10:55:28
As the author of numerous influential histories of religion in America, Mark Noll is considered to be the master historian of this subject. In this edition of Liberty Law Talk, Mark Noll joins us t...
Listen
Regulatory Dark Matter: A Conversation with Wayne Crews from 2020-01-12T10:55:28
This interview with Wayne Crews explores the growing lawlessness in the administrative state’s exercise of its powers. This regulatory “dark matter” ignores the formal rule-making...
Listen
The San Francisco Compromise: A Conversation with Michael Anton from 2020-01-12T10:55:28
This conversation with Michael Anton explores how the gargantuan wealth of Silicon Valley allied with San Francisco Progressivism and is now redefining American culture and politics. But how durabl...
Listen
A Decentralizing Remedy for the Diseases of a Fractured Republic: A Conversation with Yuval Levin from 2020-01-12T10:55:28
This edition of Liberty Law Talk welcomes back Yuval Levin to discuss his latest book, The Fractured Republic. Levin notes that our decentralizing republic, as observed in the decades long trends i...
Listen
The Secret Lives of Right-Wing Professors: A Conversation with Joshua Dunn from 2020-01-12T10:55:28
This next edition of Liberty Law Talk is a conversation with Joshua Dunn on a new book that he has co-authored with Jon Shields entitled Passing on the Right. Dunn and Shields interviewed 153 profe...
Listen
Congress as the Guardian of Individual Rights: A Conversation with Louis Fisher from 2020-01-12T10:55:28
This episode of Liberty Law Talk is a conversation with congressional scholar Louis Fisher on his recent book, Congress: Protecting Individual Rights. Fisher argues that contrary to popular belief,...
Listen
Publius for the People: A Conversation with Sanford Levinson from 2020-01-12T10:55:28
Sandy Levinson joins this edition of Liberty Law Talk for a conversation about his latest book, An Argument Open to All: Reading The Federalist in the 21st Century.
Listen
The Prudence, Principles, and Passion of Edmund Burke: A Conversation with Richard Bourke from 2020-01-12T10:55:27
Richard Bourke’s new book, Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke is the subject of this new conversation at Liberty Law Talk.
Listen
Hamilton versus Jefferson: A Conversation with Carson Holloway on the Struggle to Complete the Founding from 2020-01-12T10:55:27
This next edition of Liberty Law Talk is a conversation with Carson Holloway on his new book, Hamilton versus Jefferson in the Washington Administration.
Listen
Congress Derailed: A Conversation with Christopher DeMuth from 2020-01-12T10:55:27
Christopher DeMuth, the great conservative authority on regulatory policy, comes to Liberty Law Talk to discuss his recent work on the institutional decline of congress and how it can return to its...
Listen
Thucydides'Pursuit of Freedom: A Conversation with Mary Nichols from 2020-01-12T10:55:27
In this Liberty Law Talk, Mary Nichols discusses her new book, Thucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom, which explores the idea of freedom in Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. This ...
Listen
Great Migrations: A Conversation with Peter Skerry from 2020-01-12T10:55:27
This next edition of Liberty Law Talk is with Peter Skerry on the most significant story of 2015: the European migration crisis and what it portends for the European Union and the United States.
Listen
The Paris Massacre and the European Future: A Conversation with Mark Helprin from 2020-01-12T10:55:26
Award-winning novelist Mark Helprin is also one of the most significant voices writing on American foreign policy. Liberty Law Talk interviews Mr. Helprin about the recent terrorist attacks in Pari...
Listen
Executive Power in the Age of Obama from 2020-01-12T10:55:26
This edition of Liberty Law Talk features a discussion with George Mason Law School Professor David Bernstein on his recently released book, Lawless: The Obama Administration’s Unprecedented Assaul...
Listen
Crime and Sentencing in America: A Conversation with Frank Zimring from 2020-01-12T10:55:26
This next podcast is with criminal law expert Frank Zimring, author of The City That Became Safe: New York’s Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control, on the state of policing, crime, and sent...
Listen
The Conservative Imagination of Russell Kirk: A Conversation with Brad Birzer from 2020-01-12T10:55:25
Brad Birzer comes to Liberty Law Talk to discuss his upcoming biography of Russell Kirk entitled Russell Kirk: American Conservative. Our discussion focuses on the nature of Kirk’s conservatism and...
Listen
"Don't do stupid stuff": A Conversation with Mark Moyar about President Obama's Foreign Policy from 2020-01-12T10:55:25
This next edition of Liberty Law Talk is a discussion with historian Mark Moyar about his new book, Strategic Failure, which critiques the foreign policy pursued by the Obama administration.
Listen
The American Revolution and the Pamphlet Debate: A Conversation with Gordon Wood from 2020-01-12T10:55:25
This next edition of Liberty Law Talk is a conversation with the great American Founding historian Gordon Wood on a new two volume collection entitled the American Revolution: Writings from the Pam...
Listen
Reagan's Legacy in a World Transformed: A Conversation with Paul Kengor from 2020-01-12T10:55:25
This next edition of Liberty Law Talk features a discussion with Paul Kengor, co-editor with Jeffrey Chidester, of a new volume titled Reagan’s Legacy in a World Transformed that explores the incre...
Listen
The Declaration: A Conversation with Barry Shain from 2020-01-12T10:55:25
This conversation with Professor Barry Shain, editor of Liberty Fund’s new volume, The Declaration of Independence in Historical Context, explores the vigorous debates between the colonists a...
Listen
Introducing the Constitution: A Conversation with Michael Paulsen from 2020-01-12T10:55:25
This next edition of Liberty Law Talk is a discussion with Michael S. Paulsen, co-author with his son, Luke Paulsen, of their new book entitled The Constitution: An Introduction. The Paulsens’ book...
Listen
What is the State of the American Mind? A Conversation with Mark Bauerlein from 2020-01-12T10:55:25
Is the American Mind–the collective intelligence of what it means to live as independent citizens and individuals in America–increasingly being lost? That is the subject Mark Bauerlein ...
Listen
How Modern Psychology Undermines Freedom and Responsibility: A Conversation with Theodore Dalrymple from 2020-01-12T10:55:25
Frequent Law and Liberty contributor Theodore Dalrymple discusses with Richard Reinsch his latest book, Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality. Dalrymple, a former psychiatrist in t...
Listen
The Takings Power: A Conversation with Ilya Somin from 2020-01-12T10:55:25
Ilya Somin discusses at Liberty Law Talk his book The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City of New London & the Limits of Eminent Domain. The book provides in part a fascinating account of the plight of ...
Listen
The Disappeared: A Conversation with Roger Scruton from 2020-01-12T10:55:25
Roger Scruton discusses with Richard Reinsch in this edition of Liberty Law Talk his newest novel, The Disappeared. The story revolves around sex-trafficking in a northern city in present-day Engla...
Listen
The Burkean Style of Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Conversation with Greg Weiner from 2020-01-12T10:55:24
Frequent contributor Greg Weiner speaks with Richard Reinsch about his latest book, American Burke: The Uncommon Liberalism of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, arguing that Moynihan’s liberalism combined a...
Listen
Economics in One Popular Culture Lesson: A Discussion with John Tamny from 2020-01-12T10:55:24
John Tamny comes to Liberty Law Talk to discuss his excellent new book Popular Economics. Many will recall the first time they read Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson. That book’s clear prose and st...
Listen
Roving Bandits: A Discussion with Paul Nolette on the Power Wielded by State Attorneys General from 2020-01-12T10:55:24
Paul Nolette comes to Liberty Law Talk to discuss his book Federalism on Trial, which demonstrates how state attorneys general quietly became significant national policymakers. What was once a rath...
Listen
Public Union Power: A Conversation with Daniel DiSalvo from 2020-01-12T10:55:24
FDR observed that “The process of collective bargaining . . . cannot be transplanted into the public service.” What does it mean for taxpayers if government workers organize into unions and engage ...
Listen
Is America in Retreat? A Conversation with Bret Stephens from 2020-01-12T10:55:24
This edition of Liberty Law Talk discusses with the Wall Street Journal’s Bret Stephens his recent book, America in Retreat. Stephens argues that an America which declines to engage globally with i...
Listen
The Dismal Performance in Federal Policy-Making: A Discussion with Peter Schuck from 2020-01-12T10:55:24
Peter Schuck comes to Liberty Law Talk to discuss Why Government Fails So Often. Like James Buckley and John DiIulio, Schuck doesn’t have much good news for the large majority of Americans who are ...
Listen
Putin's Russia: A Conversation with Karen Dawisha from 2020-01-12T10:55:24
If there was any hope left that a Putin-led Russia might still transition to a democracy with a stable rule of law and truly independent civil society, Karen Dawisha’s Hayek Book Prize nominated Pu...
Listen
Leviathan by Proxy: A Discussion with John DiIulio from 2020-01-12T10:55:23
This episode of Liberty Law Talk welcomes a truly gregarious man of public administration, John DiIulio, on his new book, Bring Back the Bureaucrats. That title might well lead to a collective sigh...
Listen
To Adam Smith be True: A Conversation with Russ Roberts from 2020-01-12T10:55:23
Did you know that Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments can change your life? In essays on self-knowledge, happiness, virtue, being loved and being lovely, making the world a better place, a...
Listen
Liberating the States and Their People from Federal Grants: A Conversation with James Buckley from 2020-01-12T10:55:23
Now comes the great James Buckley to Liberty Law Talk to discuss his new book Saving Congress from Itself that argues federal grants-in-aid exemplify the obstacles currently posed to constitutional...
Listen
The Cost of Liberal Compassion: A Conversation with William Voegeli from 2020-01-12T10:55:23
What does it mean to turn politics into an exercise of compassion? That’s the question William Voegeli invites us to consider in his latest book The Pity Party. He bids us to the same conclusion, b...
Listen
The Economic Crash that Cured Itself: A Conversation with James Grant from 2020-01-12T10:55:22
What if a profound economic downturn occurred and the federal government basically ignored it? Couldn’t happen, right? In his latest book, The Forgotten Depression, James Grant details for us...
Listen
Flemming Rose on the Aftermath of the Mohammed Cartoon Crisis from 2020-01-12T10:55:22
This next podcast is with the Danish journalist Flemming Rose, foreign news editor at Jyllands-Posten, on the controversy he ignited in 2005 when he published cartoons satirizing the prophet Mohamm...
Listen
The Ghosts of Presidents Past: A Conversation with Stephen Knott from 2020-01-12T10:55:22
Presidential power scholar Stephen Knott discusses in this latest edition of Liberty Law Talk his book Rush to Judgment: George W. Bush, the War on Terror, and His Critics, recently released in pap...
Listen
Who's Afraid of Consumer Credit? A Discussion with Todd Zywicki from 2020-01-12T10:55:22
The market for consumer credit has been subjected to an ever increasing amount of federal regulation since the 2008 crisis. The Dodd-Frank Act created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to in...
Listen
Leaving Behind the EU: A Conversation with David Conway from 2020-01-12T10:55:22
The attempt by the media and the political elites of the three major political parties in the United Kingdom to heap contempt on Euroskepticism no longer possesses the same power. With the victory ...
Listen
Telling the Truth about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn from 2020-01-12T10:55:22
Comes now the great Daniel J. Mahoney, author of penetrating intellectual biographies of Bertrand de Jouvenel, Raymond Aron, and Charles de Gaulle, among other books, to discuss his latest work, Th...
Listen
Rescuing American Prosperity: A Conversation with Joel Kotkin from 2020-01-12T10:55:22
This latest podcast is with Joel Kotkin, America’s Demographer-in-Chief, on his recently released book, The New Class Conflict. Kotkin and I discuss his grave warning of an American future that no ...
Listen
The Pathetic Record of Environmentalist Pessimism from 2020-01-12T10:55:22
This conversation with Patrick Allitt on his latest book, A Climate of Crisis, provides a historical judgment on the environmentalist movement in postwar America. We see its causes, self-understand...
Listen
Rule by Edict: Shep Melnick on the Power of the Civil Rights State from 2020-01-12T10:55:22
This conversation with Shep Melnick looks into the enforcement practices of the Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Education, one of the most powerful and secretive agencies in the admini...
Listen
Achieving America's Peace: A Conversation with Angelo Codevilla from 2020-01-12T10:55:22
Angelo Codevilla comes to Liberty Law Talk to discuss his latest book To Make and Keep Peace Among Ourselves and with All Nations. Our conversation focuses on Codevilla’s main argument that America...
Listen
The Unlawful Administrative State: A Conversation with Philip Hamburger from 2020-01-12T10:55:21
The standard narrative used to justify the existence of the administrative state and thus legitimate its powers is that America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries entered into a realm of ind...
Listen
The Ascent of Originalism: A Conversation with Michael Rappaport from 2020-01-12T10:55:21
The many schools of originalism all face the same questions: does it merely perpetuate the dead hand of the past? What about the exclusion of women and blacks at the Founding? What does one do with...
Listen
Herbert Hoover's Righteous Crusade Against the New Deal: A Conversation with George Nash from 2020-01-12T10:55:21
Herbert Hoover’s legacy is perhaps forever linked with the failure of the American economy under his presidency after the stock market crash of 1929 and his ensuing defeat by Franklin Delano ...
Listen
Getting Right with the Fourteenth Amendment: A Conversation with Kurt Lash from 2020-01-12T10:55:21
Kurt Lash comes to Liberty Law Talk to discuss his newest book, The Fourteenth Amendment: The Privileges and Immunities of American Citizenship. If you think the Slaughter-House Cases of 1873 gutte...
Listen
Critiquing Leo Strauss from the Right from 2020-01-12T10:55:20
This next episode of Liberty Law Talk is a discussion with author and professor Grant Havers on his conservative critique of Leo Strauss. Many conservatives hold Strauss in high regard as a thinker...
Listen
Robin Harris Discusses the Rise, Fall, and Legacy of Margaret Thatcher from 2020-01-12T10:55:20
Margaret Thatcher’s death one year ago sparked much commentary either critical or adulatory. You were certainly hard-pressed to find balanced commentary on her legacy unless you were reading Theodo...
Listen
Presidential Power Rising: A Conversation with Frank Buckley from 2020-01-12T10:55:20
This next Liberty Law Talk is with Frank Buckley about his new book The Once and Future King: The Rise of Crown Government in America. Buckley’s book is a profound challenge to the script of ...
Listen
America's Way Back from 2020-01-12T10:55:20
Friedrich Hayek once noted that “A successful free society will always in large measure be a tradition-bound society.” In pursuit of Hayek’s wisdom, this podcast with Donald Devine, author of...
Listen
Common Core Nation from 2020-01-12T10:55:20
In this discussion I talk with Professor Sandra Stotsky who has emerged as one of the leading critics of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. Stotsky has testified before numerous state legi...
Listen
PovertyCure: From Aid to Enterprise from 2020-01-12T10:55:19
Can the current model of humanitarian aid generated by networks of large philanthropic foundations, NGOs, and Western governments actually alleviate the poverty of the world’s Bottom Billion,...
Listen
The New Deal&Modern American Conservatism from 2020-01-12T10:55:19
This next Liberty Law Talk is with Gordon Lloyd of the School of Public Policy at Pepperdine on his new book, co-authored with David Davenport, The New Deal & Modern American Conservatism (Hoov...
Listen
The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left from 2020-01-12T10:55:19
This edition of Liberty Law Talk is with Yuval Levin, author of The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left. A 2013 Bradley Prize recipient, Levin connects us with...
Listen
Power Tends to Corrupt from 2020-01-12T10:55:19
Christopher Lazarski comes to Liberty Law Talk to discuss his deep inquiry into Lord Acton’s attempt to understand the dimensions and nature of liberty as it unfolded in Western history. In t...
Listen
Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning from 2020-01-12T10:55:19
This Liberty Law Talk is with political scientist Justin Dyer on his latest book, Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning (Cambridge University Press, 2013). In debates over t...
Listen
Immigration and the American Exception from 2020-01-12T10:55:19
This next conversation is with Richard Samuelson on the constitutional principles that have guided our nation’s approach to immigration, that is, until recently. In an essay in the Summer 201...
Listen
In Sunlight and In Shadow from 2020-01-12T10:55:19
Mark Helprin, award-winning novelist, former member of the Israeli Army and Air Force, foreign and military policy strategist, comes to Liberty Law Talk to discuss his latest novel, In Sunlight and...
Listen
Twilight of the American Republic from 2020-01-12T10:55:19
This next Liberty Law Talk is a conversation with Justin Litke on his new book, Twilight of the Republic. Our conversation focuses on the book’s attempt to situate twentieth century claims of...
Listen
The Tragedy of Religious Freedom from 2020-01-12T10:55:19
This next Liberty Law Talk is with Marc DeGirolami on his new book, The Tragedy of Religious Freedom (Harvard University Press, 2013). Central to DeGirolami’s argument is the failure of monis...
Listen
Law, Legislation and Liberty from 2020-01-12T10:55:19
This Liberty Law Talk is with philosopher Eric Mack on Friedrich Hayek’s 1973 magnum opus, Law, Legislation and Liberty. Hayek’s significant trilogy distinguishes between law and legisl...
Listen
Reforming Class Action Abuse from 2020-01-12T10:55:18
This Liberty Law Talk is with Ted Frank on reforming class action litigation and, in particular, the settlements plaintiffs receive under the current system. Frank, the founder of the Center for Cl...
Listen
Accelerating Democracy from 2020-01-12T10:55:18
This next Liberty Law Talk is with John McGinnis, the George C. Dix Professor of Constitutional Law at Northwestern University, on his book Accelerating Democracy: Transforming Governance through T...
Listen
First Amendment Institutions from 2020-01-12T10:55:18
The next Liberty Law Talk is with Paul Horwitz on his new book, First Amendment Institutions. Horwitz challenges the dominant legal perspective on free speech in American law, which focuses on spea...
Listen
Financing Failure: A Century of Bailouts from 2020-01-12T10:55:18
So we were told with the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act that too big to fail was now behind us. Except it isn’t. In fact, the conditions supporting bank bailouts have only gotten worse with th...
Listen
Rediscovering the Missing Element of the'Dismal Science' from 2020-01-12T10:55:17
This next Liberty Law Talk is with John Mueller, author of Redeeming Economics. Modern economic thought focuses on production, exchange, and consumption. Much of Mueller’s focus, however, is ...
Listen
Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition from 2020-01-12T10:55:17
Who could be more American than former president Theodore Roosevelt? You might be surprised if you listen to the next Liberty Law Talk with Jean Yarbrough on her newest book, Theodore Roosevelt and...
Listen
Constitutional Conservatism from 2020-01-12T10:55:17
This Liberty Law Talk is with Hoover Institution fellow Peter Berkowitz on his new book Constitutional Conservatism: Liberty, Self-Government, and Political Moderation. The book deepens Frank Meyer...
Listen
What to Expect When No One is Expecting from 2020-01-12T10:55:17
Jonathan Last’s book What to Expect When No One is Expecting is the subject of the next Liberty Law Talk. Last, a senior writer for the Weekly Standard, points our attention to below replacem...
Listen
Making the Supreme Court Safe for Democracy: A Conversation with Joshua Hawley from 2020-01-12T10:55:17
Joshua Hawley discuss several ways a more targeted focus on self-government might challenge the Court's self-understanding of its expansive powers.
Listen
Curbing Campaign Cash from 2020-01-12T10:55:17
The next Liberty Law Talk is a conversation with Paula Baker about her new book, Curbing Campaign Cash. You might recall former FEC Commissioner Brad Smith’s review of the book in this space....
Listen
The Constitution and Immigration from 2020-01-12T10:55:17
This edition of Liberty Law Talk is a conversation with Vincent Cannato, author of American Passage: The History of Ellis Island, about America's constitutional and policy history regarding immigra...
Listen
A Nation of Takers: A Discussion with Nicholas Eberstadt from 2020-01-12T10:55:16
Nicholas Eberstadt comes to Liberty Law Talk this month to discuss his significant new book, A Nation of Takers: America’s Entitlement Epidemic. Our conversation focuses on the staggering dat...
Listen
Failing Law Schools from 2020-01-12T10:55:16
The next Liberty Law Talk is with Brian Tamanaha on his important book, Failing Law Schools. This discussion focuses on Tamanaha’s claim that legal education is the victim of regulatory captu...
Listen
Lincoln's Code of War from 2020-01-12T10:55:16
The next edition of Liberty Law Talk is with professor and author John Fabian Witt on the subject of his new book Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History. Recently named by the Ne...
Listen
Becoming Europe from 2020-01-12T10:55:16
This Liberty Law Talk is a discussion with Samuel Gregg about his most recent book, Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future. Recent events in Cyprus,...
Listen
What is Marriage? from 2020-01-12T10:55:16
The Supreme Court will soon pronounce upon the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8, which amended that state’s constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage, and the federal De...
Listen
Beyond Politics: How to Think about Government Failure from 2020-01-12T10:55:16
The next Liberty Law Talk is a conversation with Randy Simmons on his recently revised and updated book, Beyond Politics: The Roots of Government Failure. Serious policy analysis frequently begins ...
Listen
Ratifying the U.S. Constitution from 2020-01-12T10:55:16
This next edition of Liberty Law Talk is a discussion with John Vile about his new book, The Writing and Ratification of the U.S. Constitution: Practical Virtue in Action. Our discussion, chronolog...
Listen
Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate from 2020-01-12T10:55:16
The next Liberty Law Talk is a conversation with Greg Lukianoff, attorney and president of the Foundation for Individual Rights (FIRE), about his new book, Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and...
Listen
The Rise and Rise of Independent Federal Agencies from 2020-01-12T10:55:15
This next edition of Liberty Law Talk is a discussion with Adam White, a lawyer in Washington with Boyden Gray & Associates, about the increasing policy significance of independent agencies. Wh...
Listen
Understanding Alexander Hamilton from 2020-01-12T10:55:15
The next episode of Liberty Law Talk is a discussion with Michael Federici about his new book, The Political Philosophy of Alexander Hamilton. Federici attempts to get beyond the mountains of secon...
Listen
Defending the Electoral College from 2020-01-12T10:55:15
This next edition of Liberty Law Talk is a conversation with Dr. Gary Gregg, author of Securing Democracy: Why We Have an Electoral College, on the foundations of the Electoral College, its connect...
Listen
The Crisis of Modern Liberalism: A Conversation with Charles Kesler from 2020-01-12T10:55:14
The next edition of Liberty Law Talk is a conversation with Charles Kesler on his new book, I am the Change: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Liberalism. Professor Kesler’s book argues that th...
Listen
Understanding the Best Book Ever Written About American Democracy from 2020-01-12T10:55:14
This new edition of Liberty Law Talk is a conversation with Daniel J. Mahoney of Assumption College regarding Alexis de Tocqueville’s counsel in Democracy in America on how Americans can best...
Listen
Searching for the City on a Hill: Tracing the Roots of America's Metaphor from 2020-01-12T10:55:14
The next Liberty Law Talk podcast is a conversation with historian Richard Gamble of Hillsdale College on his challenging new book, In Search of the City on a Hill: The Making and Unmaking of an Am...
Listen
The Profoundly anti-Keynesian Political Economy of Wilhelm Röpke from 2020-01-12T10:55:14
Samuel Gregg discusses the anti-Keynsian fusionist everyone should know: Wilhelm Röpke.
Listen
James Madison's Constitutionalism from 2020-01-12T10:55:14
In this next edition of Liberty Law Talk, I discuss with Gregory Weiner, author of Madison’s Metronome: The Constitution, Majority Rule, and the Tempo of American Politics, James Madison̵...
Listen
Hadley Arkes on Right Reason and Constitutional Law from 2020-01-12T10:55:14
In this podcast, I discuss with Hadley Arkes the fundamental touchstones of our written Constitution that he contends are discovered through reason and logic in a process that goes beyond the text....
Listen
The Rule of Law and the Auto Bailouts: A Conversation with Todd Zywicki from 2020-01-12T10:55:13
This episode of Liberty Law Talk is a conversation with George Mason School of Law Professor Todd Zywicki about the blatant violations of the federal bankruptcy code and the breach of the rule of l...
Listen
Rehabilitating Lochner: A Conversation with David Bernstein from 2020-01-12T10:55:13
In the next Liberty Law Talk I discuss with David Bernstein of the George Mason University School of Law his excellent work of constitutional history Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Ri...
Listen
Reviving Economic Liberties: A Conversation with Clint Bolick from 2020-01-12T10:55:13
In this edition of Liberty Law Talk, I talk with Clint Bolick, Director of the Center for Constitutional Litigation at the Goldwater Institute, about his new book Death Grip: Loosening the Law̵...
Listen
From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Tradition from 2020-01-12T10:55:13
In this new installment of Liberty Law Talk, I discuss with renowned legal historian John Witte the recent reissuing of his classic work, From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in ...
Listen
Understanding Slavery and the American Founding: A Conversation with Gordon Lloyd from 2020-01-12T10:55:13
This new conversation in Liberty Law Talk is with Gordon Lloyd, a scholar of the American founding. Lloyd focuses on the debates in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and the state constitutiona...
Listen
Design for Liberty: A Conversation with Richard Epstein from 2020-01-12T10:55:13
In this conversation, Liberty Law Talk discusses with Professor Richard Epstein his new book Design for Liberty: Private Property, Public Administration, and the Rule of Law. Professor Epstein note...
Listen
Taming Globalization: A Conversation with John Yoo from 2020-01-12T10:55:13
In this podcast, John Yoo discusses his new book, co-authored with Julian Ku, Taming Globalization: International Law, the U.S. Constitution, and the New World Order. Yoo focuses attention on the p...
Listen
Scholasticism and Political Freedom from 2020-01-12T10:55:13
In this edition of Liberty Law Talk, we discuss with Russell Hittinger, the William K. Warren Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Tulsa, Jacques Maritain’s Scholasticism and Politi...
Listen
The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Justice Clarence Thomas from 2020-01-12T10:55:13
This discussion with Professor Ralph Rossum of Claremont McKenna College explores the jurisprudence of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Rossum posits that Justice Thomas practices an “...
Listen
Understanding the Progressive Constitution from 2020-01-12T10:55:13
This edition of Liberty Law Talk is a conversation with Ronald Pestritto on Progressivism's transformation of the Constitution. Pestritto, a noted author on Progressivism and its intellectual origi...
Listen
Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America from 2020-01-12T10:55:12
In this conversation with Walter Olson, we discuss the progressive philosophy informing much of legal pedagogy in American law schools and how it has manifested itself in a range of attempts to use...
Listen
Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath from 2020-01-12T10:55:12
Historian George Nash joins us for a discussion of a book that is decades old but, only recently, was published for the first time, Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second W...
Listen