Political Theory
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Mayflower Compact
America’s first founding document forms a people, not a government.
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Should Liberty Have Limits?
Joseph Stiglitz’s path out of neoliberalism would lead straight to state coercion.
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Abraham Lincoln
Was he a constitutionalist or a revolutionist?
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A Hayekian Defense of Ordo Amoris
J. D. Vance is right: charity begins at home.
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Moderation as Pursuit of Justice
John Kekes and Aurelian Craiutu ask what virtues make a society truly good.
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The Immoral Myths of “Settler Colonialism”
Its supporters want to dismantle the West and return it to the “natives.”
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The Common-Good Constitution
Yuval Levin champions our founding document’s “essential republicanism.”
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The Great Centralizer
Alexander Hamilton’s influence on the Constitution was decidedly nationalist, but far from conservative.
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Our Unruly yet United States
Americans have never been a tame lot, but our liberty creates its own forms of order.
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