Principle and Pragmatism in Law

Principle and Pragmatism in Law

The Preventive State: The Challenge of Preventing Serious Harms While Preserving Essential Liberties  By Alan Dershowitz.  Encounter Books, 2025.  Hardcover, 240 pages, $29.99 Reviewed by Cary Federman.  In the late 1960s, Alan Dershowitz, the Felix Frankfurter...
The Collapse of Constitutional Consciousness

The Collapse of Constitutional Consciousness

The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies By Aziz A. Huq. Oxford University Press, 2021. Hardcover, 192 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by Glen Sproviero. Aziz Huq’s The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies is an elegantly written, yet deeply flawed examination of American...
The Intrinsic Argument for Free Speech

The Intrinsic Argument for Free Speech

The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage By Jonathan Turley. Simon & Schuster, 2024. Hardcover, 432 pages, $30.99. Reviewed by Luke C. Sheahan.  Free speech lurks amid many of the controversies of the last several centuries. From Charles I’s infamous...
Order for a Disordered Time

Order for a Disordered Time

The Roots of American Order  By Russell Kirk. ISI Books, 2003. Paperback, 534 pages, $18. Reviewed by Daniel Pitt. If we go back fifty years to 1974, one might say it was annus horribilis for America. The US was in a grip of an energy crisis, the Presidency of Richard...