Michael Rentz joins Liberty Law Talk to discuss the global supply chain at its breaking point.

Liberty Law Talk

Grappling With Logistics

What's Wrong With America?

Allen Guelzo tells us about the life of Robert E. Lee.

Understanding Lee

Scott Lincicome considers the full set of issues that make industrial policy an untenable, unworkable solution for any country that wants economic growth.

Industrial Policy Dreams Perpetually Deferred

This podcast with criminologist Barry Latzer focuses on the surprising findings in his latest book, The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America. Latzer discusses the violent crime wave that began in the mid 1960’s and how its sharp fall in the mid 90s has recast urban life in America. However, Latzer urges humility in understanding […]

History of Violence: A Conversation with Barry Latzer

James Hankins outlines a path forward on an education that prepares students for a life of dignified freedom and citizenship.

Provoking an Educational Renaissance

Philip Hamburger discusses how the government bypasses the Constitution and the rule of law to secure our submission to its will.

Abusing the Power of the Purse

In this episode of Liberty Law Talk, I discuss with Professor John Inazu his new book Liberty’s Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly. Inazu offers his thoughts on resurrecting this most important constitutional doctrine from the doldrums where it languishes as a result of Court rulings.  Consequently, Inazu argues that the freedom of assembly is […]

The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly

Steven Smith discusses his book Fiction, Lies, and the Authority of Law.

The Collapse of American Legal Authority

Mike Gonzalez discusses his new book BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution.

Understanding Black Lives Matter

Angelo Codevilla comes to Liberty Law Talk to discuss his latest book To Make and Keep Peace Among Ourselves and with All Nations. Our conversation focuses on Codevilla’s main argument that American statesmen increasingly fail to understand the nature and purpose of statecraft: the achievement of peace. So what does it mean to achieve America’s peace? […]

Achieving America's Peace

This next episode of Liberty Law Talk is with Steven Smith on his new book The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom. Our conversation explores Smith’s challenge to the dominant academic narrative that the Supreme Court’s mid-twentieth century decisions imposing secular neutrality vindicated the religion clauses of the First Amendment. In this version, their […]

The Revised Version of American Religious Freedom: A Conversation with Steven Smith

Richard Reinsch (00:19): Hello, and welcome to Liberty Law Talk I’m Richard Reinsch. Today we’re talking with John McGinnis about the recently concluded Supreme Court term of 2020 and 2021. John McGinnis, many of you will know is a contributing editor at Law & Liberty. He’s also the George C. Dix Professor in Constitutional Law […]

Supreme Court Roundup 2020-21

Walter McDougall discusses how America's civil religion has shaped our foreign policy.

American Heresies and the Betrayal of the National Interest: A Conversation with Walter McDougall

Editor’s Note: This podcast was originally posted on October 13, 2014. This conversation with Roger Scruton engages his defense of the conservative disposition. Scruton’s just-released book, How to be a Conservative, might be said to take on the challenge Friedrich Hayek issued in his famous essay “Why I Am Not a Conservative.” There, you will […]

How to be a Conservative

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