Thank you, Eugene! This week, I'm blogging about a scholarly project long in the works. Earlier this summer, I published a book, Natural Property Rights, with Cambridge University Press. If readers ...

For hundreds of years, thinkers have tried to answer this problem by attempting to understand the origin of laws and rights ...

Save Bayh–Dole’s $2 Trillion Impact on American Innovation Why 2026 Marks the Dawn of Nationwide School Choice Audio By Carbonatix Some critics of originalism fault it on natural-law grounds. Their ...

Unjust laws are not laws—they are simply mandates. This type of mandate fundamentally contradicts the basis of our modem legal system: the U.S. and state constitutions, federal and state statutes, and ...

Drawing on their new book, Hopeful Realism, Jesse Covington, Bryan T. McGraw, and Micah Watson lay out an Augustinian and evangelical theory of the natural law and show how it can be employed within ...

Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason, by Pierre Manent (University of Notre Dame Press, 149 pp., $29) Russell Kirk once described natural law as “an ethical knowledge, ...

I'm blogging this week about my new book Natural Property Rights, published with Cambridge University Press and available for purchase now digitally and in hardbound version, at a variety of ...

John Yoo responds to an article by UC Berkeley’s Steve Hayward on his substack Political Questions. Readers of Political Questions may know that Steve and I have been in Italy, where we participated ...

When I was in college, an art history professor at my school transitioned. This was in the late 1970s, so one might think that this was a big deal for everyone on campus. It turned out not to be. The ...

Constitutional theorists on the right are engaged in a debate about the moral foundations of originalism, the theory that government officials, including judges, are bound by the original meaning of ...