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I wish that all nations may recover and retain their independence; that those which are overgrown may not advance beyond safe measures of power, that a salutary balance may be…

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It looks like the Bush Justice Department just bagged themselves another Democratic Governor. Here’s the New York Times on the story: Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who gained national prominence relentlessly pursuing…

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King Arthur, A Dramatick Opera. Music by Henry Purcell, libretto by John Dryden. (1691) The New York City Opera, Lincoln Center. It’s hard to imagine a more potent team than…

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A posting entitled “Mr. Blackledge’s Black Helicopters” included a quotation characterizing a conversation between Brett Blackledge, a reporter for the Birmingham News, and Simon Heller of the Alliance for Justice.…

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The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal of democracy rests on the belief that the…

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Imagine this scene. A wannabe autocrat faces a legislature dominated by his political opposition. He fixes elections with gusto, throws his opponents in the jail with regularity, and an opposition…

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The mere ability to choose between good and evil is the lowest limit of freedom, and the only thing that is free about it is the fact that we can…

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This weekend, the darkness continues to descend in Washington, the powers of the state continue to grow and the mechanisms of accountability rot away unused. Americans are focused on the…

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They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, Love and desire and hate: I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate. They are not…

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De nostris ætatibus loquor, quas incredibili celeritate [con]uoluit. Computa urbium sæcula: uidebis quam non diu steterint etiam quæ uetustate gloriantur. Omnia humana breuia et caduca sunt et infiniti temporis nullam…

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Back in the sixties, when the citizens of Alabama wanted to get a fair report on the progress of the Civil Rights movement in their state, they had to turn…

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What an opportunity is presented to this Republic to vindicate her consistency and become immortal. The occasion is forced upon us, and the invitation presented to strike the chains from…

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David Rieff, a well-recognized author in his own right, is also the son of Susan Sontag, one of America’s defining writers and essayists from the contemporary period. Sontag experienced three…

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Much of the constitutional struggle that engulfed the English-speaking world in the seventeenth century revolved around two fairly simple phrases. One was “no man is above the law,” and the…

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Ces nymphes, je les veux perpétuer. Ces nymphes, je les veux perpétuer. Si clair, Leur incarnat léger, qu’il voltige dans l’air Assoupi de sommeils touffus. Assoupi de sommeils touffus. Aimai-je…

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Mallarmé lui répondit: « Ce n’est point avec des idées, mon cher Degas, que l’on fair des vers. C’est avec des mots. » Mallarmé avait raison. Mais quand Degas parlait…

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Dr. Matthew Happold of the law faculty at the University of Hull writes us with this considerably more detailed treatment of the pardon appeal on behalf of the Scots medium…

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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of…

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Promise was that I Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver; Ask for this great Deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the Mill with slaves, Himself in bonds…

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I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear; Those of mechanics—each one singing his, as it should be, blithe and strong; The carpenter singing his, as he measures his…

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Thou sir Launcelot there thou lyest that thou were neuer matched of erthely knyghtes hande & thou were the curtest knyght that euer bare shelde & thou were the truest…

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Coming back from a nasty bout with the flu and liveblogging the Don Siegelman case today at First Monday, the justice watch project of the Alliance for Justice and Fire…

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Why should the concept of an American Establishment, first introduced into American journalism, according to Rovere, by National Review, be so fascinating to so many people? The answer is complicated.…

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In the last eighteen months, Antonin Scalia, one of the most influential judges in American history, has twice suggested that he would turn to a fictional television character named Jack…

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Viewed in relation to its purposes, the law code of Lycurgus is a masterpiece in the art of statecraft and humanity. He desired a powerful, unassailable state, firmly established on…

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