Reviewing Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner’s Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts in the Claremont Review of Books, David Forte exposes Justice Scalia’s famous legal positivism as moral philosophy by another name. “They call false,”… Continue Reading
Submitted for comment, the below is a portion of a long piece I’ve been working on for some time on the role of government in the modern U.S. economy, including its role in addressing the limited problems with inequality of… Continue Reading
Even children understand them: I have the right of education. I have the right to play. I have the right to sing. I have the right to talk. I have the right to go to market. I have the right… Continue Reading
Via George Anastaplo’s “In Re Antonin Scalia”, wherein we see Scalia as a legal positivist and no natural lawyer, more a “modern” than a Catholic conservative. But first, the great Mortimer Adler on Plato: [In Plato’s Republic, we] find the… Continue Reading
In my contribution to the Democracy Symposium, I acknowledged that modern economic realities may well require more of our government than our Founders contemplated some 22 decades ago. CK MacLeod worries that, as a Constitutional Conservative, I’ve wandered into a… Continue Reading
A dear friend, who has done premier work in the neural sciences and several books on philosophical psychology, remarked that he wanted, as the epitaph on his gravestone, "He died without a theory." A former colleague of mine remarked that… Continue Reading