For forty years, American constitutional theory has been viewed as a clash between originalists and non-originalists. This depiction misunderstands and oversimplifies the nature of the debate within ...

Abortion rights demonstrators rally to mark the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Dobbs v. Women’s Health Organization case in June. In my column last week, I took a tour of mostly ...

The Republican National Convention went off with little controversy, so naturally liberal media and the Democratic Party have rushed to embrace every ridiculous conspiracy theory that floats by on ...

Arguably no contemporary scholar has thought more deeply about how liberalism as a political tradition and philosophy has been historically and structurally biased towards the socioeconomic interests ...

My favorite saying about my fellow Jews emphasizes not our tenacity or our piety but something much more important: our passion for disagreement. “Two Jews, three opinions,” a rabbi once told me ...

In today's post, I will present a general theory of liberalism and conservatism that incorporates modern social science research. I will begin with examples of liberal and conservative attitudes in ...

In my column last week, I took a tour of mostly right-wing conspiracy theories that are infecting our political dialogue with a vertigo-inducing warp of reality. It’s only fair that we explore some of ...