The Words of a Giant of the Law
Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived by Antonin Scalia, edited by Christopher J. Scalia and Edward Whelan. Crown Forum, 2017. Cloth, 420 pages, $30. Antonin Scalia is the Winston Churchill of the American judiciary. He was a larger-than-life...Constitutionalism, Both Good and Horrid
Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century by Geoffrey R. Stone. Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017. Cloth, 669 pages, $35.Geoffrey Stone is very like the proverbial little girl with the curl in the middle...Did the Burger Court Suffer from the ‘Greenhouse Effect?’
The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right, by Michael J. Graetz and Linda Greenhouse. Simon and Schuster, 2016. Hardcover, 468 pp., $30. The two authors of this provocative book are card-carrying members of the legal elite, and their work is a revisionist...The Rock Star of One First Street
Scalia: A Court of One by Bruce Allen Murphy. Simon & Schuster, 2014. Cloth, 656 pp., $35.This is an unusual book. One has the feeling that the author does not really care for his subject, but, in spite of himself, Bruce Allen Murphy, the Fred Morgan Kirby...
Why is free speech an indispensable right?
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Just released: Late @ubookman editor Gerald Russello's selected works by @clunymedia. 78 essays on conservatism, Catholicism, law, humanities, Latin, & culture from 23 outlets: @NRO, @firstthingsmag, @newcriterion, @ModAgeJournal, @chroniclesmag, & more!