Thank you, Eugene! This week, I'm blogging about a scholarly project long in the works. Earlier this summer, I published a book, Natural Property Rights, with Cambridge University Press. If readers ...

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will receive enough votes in the Senate today to join the Supreme Court as the first African-American woman Justice. Jackson is qualified by any traditional ...

Professor Bradley Rebeiro has an interesting new paper on the constitutional thought of Frederick Douglass, "Frederick Douglass and the Original Originalists." The article is forthcoming in the BYU ...

Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason, by Pierre Manent (University of Notre Dame Press, 149 pp., $29) Russell Kirk once described natural law as “an ethical knowledge, ...

We hear a lot about natural rights these days. Talk show pundits and concerned citizens in town halls express barely-controlled outrage at the denial of their civil liberties. Government forces, it ...