“Bury the lead!” is certainly unusual editorial advice but possibly the only good strategy for an essay on the vagaries of the federal court system. You never want your readers to know that t...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/124799-when-a-judge-is-forced-off-the-bench.html
It has taken some time but there are signs that the cultural elites, members of what has been called America’s “ruling class,” have started to engage in some long overdue self-examination a...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/124754-david-brooks-is-onto-something-christians-take-note.html
It is safe to say C.S. Lewis is not known first of all for his treatment of totalitarianism. We are familiar with Lewis the Christian apologist, Lewis the writer of children’s stories and scien...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/124313-c-s-lewis-on-the-specter-of-totalitarianism.html
We’re down to the final two candidates: Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. The next prime minister of the United Kingdom with be either our third female premier (all Conservative) or the nation’s fir...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/123687-after-boris-more-of-the-same-or-a-different-direction.html
The vote is in. Boris survived—or did he? The 359 members of the Parliamentary Conservative Party voted by 211 to 148 that they had confidence in Boris Johnson as the leader of the party and pr...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/123510-boris-johnson-the-great-survivor.html
There is almost no institution in the past 100 years that has more profoundly shaped American public life than the Supreme Court. As a result, the composition of the Supreme Court has become one ...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/123161-what-can-we-expect-from-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson.html
In the fable of “The Bell and the Cat,” a group of mice discuss how best to protect themselves from a rapacious, predatory cat who has been hunting them down. One mouse suggests they put a be...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/123155-put-the-state-of-the-union-address-out-of-its-misery.html
Ilya Shapiro, a Russian émigré, a serious scholar of the American Constitution, and formerly of the libertarian Cato Institute until he was scheduled on February 1 to begin running Georgetown�...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/123012-ilya-shapiros-ill-worded-tweet-and-the-crying-game.html
Each morning’s headlines in the British press bring new details of parties happening inside Boris Johnson’s government while the rest of the United Kingdom and much of the world was locked do...
Today we mostly associate the idea of reparations for America’s black population with left-wing politics, and that’s no surprise. Only Democratic candidates for president, such as Marianne Wi...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/122906-heres-how-to-offer-reparations-in-a-free-society.html