6+ hour, 52+ min ago  (278+ words) Administrative settlements should be seen as a distinct aspect of the administrative state. Such settlements often establish compliance systems, reporting duties, or restrictions that influence industry norms. As a result, policy can be shaped not only through rulemaking or judicial…...

6+ hour, 51+ min ago  (1706+ words) The territorial approach guarantees citizenship for the children of almost anyone who gets across the border, including temporary and unlawful visitors. As put by the lawyer arguing against the government, "Virtually everyone born on U. S. soil is subject to its jurisdiction…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (284+ words) Maine's Popular Government is generally regarded as a conservative classic. Peter Viereck said that the work "systematized the Burkean approach into a consistent philosophy." Sir Ernest Barker, the first holder of the chair of political science at Cambridge, argued that…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (659+ words) Planning and freedom are often in tension, but they are not opposites. Classical liberals should seek a seat at the planning table to ensure that freedom is part of the plan. A useful starting point for conceptualizing a liberal abundance…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (189+ words) If people today wonder what's wrong with American journalism, it could very well be that it lacks reporters like Kempton. A new collection of Murray Kempton's reporting demonstrates how good writing encourages America to do better as a country. Our…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago  (226+ words) So where are the departing members going?" Burge's data is superb at documenting the wreckage, but his prescription does not reckon seriously with the possibility that the current divisions are not a failure of temperament but a consequence of irreconcilable…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago  (318+ words) In Cambridge last year, a trigger warning for another Blake exhibition promised, "depictions of suffering, sexual violence and enslavement." The Guardian's review lamented that Blake, "is clearly a racist by modern standards." As you can imagine, tickets sold out quickly....

1+ week, 6+ hour ago  (283+ words) Machiavelli and the Project of "Rational Control" With a nod to Aristotle and Tocqueville, Mansfield suggests that "most humans can be free only through politics, and our political freedom is part of human nature." Mansfield's impressive and wise book ends…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago  (297+ words) For at least a century, American college political science departments have offered courses on "the history of political theory." Typically, however, the courses were viewed as ancillary to "real" political science, since they surveyed what were regarded as outdated views…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (414+ words) The wealthy may have the resources to absorb the costs of compliance, plot a course through the regulatory jungle, or purchase expensive private alternatives, but the poor do not. Faith in the State To increase the supply of goods and…...