In the Tradition of Liberty.
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In Mark 9:38–41, the disciples are troubled to see someone casting out demons in Jesus’s name who is not part of their circle. Expecting rebuke, they are surprised when Jesus affirms the outsider’s work: “Do not stop him… for the one who is not against us is for us” (Mark 9:40). Jonathan Rauch, a self-described atheist, gay, Jew, and senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, is certainly not a member of Jesus’s movement. Yet in Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy, Rauch finds himself doing…
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Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to leave no corner of American society unaltered, and the legal system is no exception. Dr. Bateman believes AI will birth an inequitable and disorderly justice system. On the contrary, we believe AI is positioned to be an ultimate equalizer of justice. AI is cheap and fast intelligence; intelligence facilitates truth-seeking, and it is truth-seeking that is the primary function of our courts. Bateman fears that AI adoption will be an ultimatum for the rule of law, or an epistemic weapon of mass destruction. We…
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As a teenager, I would devour the right-wing periodicals at my school library: National Review, the American Spectator, Chronicles, and The New American. (It was a conservative private school in Houston, Texas, which my siblings and I attended tuition-free thanks to our mother’s teaching job there.) That was my introduction to Bill Buckley’s writing and ideas. I enjoyed NR, but my go-to read became The New American — the official magazine of the John Birch Society — whose radical rejection of “globalism” and the New Deal state seemed, in today’s…
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It should come as no surprise to readers of this magazine that America has a trust problem—specifically, trust in the major societal institutions and elites that run, shape, and influence the lives of most every American citizen, in good ways and bad, both directly and indirectly. Poll after poll after poll shows Americans dropping from a mid-century height of trust in institutions such as the news media, higher education, law enforcement, and most government bodies. Whether you look at Gallup, Pew, or any other reputable polling institution (and in our…
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In his essay “AI Disorder in the Courtroom,” Oliver Bateman raises several concerns about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in both the legal profession and various elements of courtroom procedure or evidence. Technology is rapidly evolving and inevitably disrupts existing norms and processes; however, such disruption should not be presumed to result in disorder. While such disruption can bring challenges, focusing too much on potential problems or rushing to make decisions while the technology is still novel may prevent the greater benefits that the technological disruption could bring to the legal profession…
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Nathan Hitchen’s most recent piece speaks of America as the heir to the British Empire. Hitchen gives great depth in a work that dispels common myths about the relationship between the founding and monarchy. To even better understand the vision of our republic held by its framers, one may look beyond the British politics of the era to the history that inspired it. Not only did the Founders recover an older British conception of government, they built a nation in line with forgotten classical traditions of political thought. The American Revolution…
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Progressives nabbed a major victory in the Democratic primary for Mayor of New York City with the recent victory of Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani over former Governor Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo was far from an ideal candidate, his resume still marked by the sexual harassment scandals and handling of the COVID-19 pandemic that had previously resulted in his resignation as Governor. However, Mamdani’s victory should scare mainstream Democrats and make them do everything in their power to prevent him from winning in November, either by backing incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who is…
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Conservatives should welcome a court ruling striking down the President’s tariffs. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. will hear oral arguments on July 31 in the consolidated cases V.O.S. Selections v. Trump and Oregon v. Trump. These cases are on appeal from the United States Court of International Trade after a three-judge panel for that court unanimously found that the President lacked authority to launch the ongoing tariff war. Many on the right have either chosen to side with the President or to remain silent, presumably…
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“I loved that AI, thank you for that.” Judge Todd Lang’s words echoed through the Maricopa County Superior Court on May 1, 2025, after watching a deepfake video of a murder victim deliver his own impact statement. That endorsement, delivered from the bench of an Arizona courtroom, revealed more about how technology is outpacing prudence than any futurist manifesto could. Christopher Pelkey, a 37-year-old Army veteran killed in a 2021 road rage incident in Chandler, Arizona, appeared digitally resurrected on screen during the 2025 sentencing of Gabriel Horcasitas, the man…
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Nathan D. Hitchen argues that many of our fellow Americans misunderstand Independence Day. Rather than a rejection of Old World forms of government, Hitchen contends, the United States is a constitutional monarchy with behind a veneer of republican government. After the failure of the Articles of Confederation, according to Hitchen, the Framers designed a constitution that effectively restored the arrangement among the colonies prior to British parliamentary interference during the 1770s. Although the Constitution rejects titles of nobility and other hierarchical trappings, the results looks surprisingly like what John Adams called “a monarchical…