Sotirios Barber is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. Now’s hardly the time for what Brian Christopher Jones calls “constitutional idolatry” (Constitutional Idolatry and Democracy (2020)). America needs the virtues of the American founding, especially the … Continue reading Greg Weiner’s This-Old-House Theory of Constitutional Obligation

Susan McWilliams Barndt is chair and professor of politics at Pomona College. She is a regular contributor to The Constitutionalist. John Dickinson is probably the most important American founder you’ve never heard of, or never thought much about.  Dickinson has faded … Continue reading The Forgotten Constitutionalist

George Thomas is the Wohlford Professor of American Political Institutions and Director of the Salvatori Center at Claremont McKenna College. Professor Thomas is a regular contributor to The Constitutionalist. John Eastman was the architect of former President Trump’s plan to get … Continue reading John Eastman’s Big Lie

George Thomas is the Wohlford Professor of American Political Institutions and Director of the Salvatori Center at Claremont McKenna College. Professor Thomas is a regular contributor to The Constitutionalist. Dissenting from a Supreme Court order that declined to take up a … Continue reading Justice Gorsuch is Right–We should Rethink “New York Times v. Sullivan”

Greg Weiner is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Assumption University. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is a regular contributor for The Constitutionalist. On September 16, on the eve of Constitution Day, McSweeney’s … Continue reading What Do We owe the Founders

This is the fourth in a series of essays about Jonathan Rauch’s new book, The Constitution of Knowledge. This series is sponsored by Claremont McKenna’s Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom. Aurelian Craiutu is Professor of Political Science at … Continue reading In Praise of Eclecticism and Viewpoint Diversity

Jeffrey K. Tulis is Professor of Government and Professor of Law at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a regular contributor to The Constitutionalist. This essay celebrates Constitution Day through discussion. Robert Carlyle Byrd from West Virginia was … Continue reading The Civic Constitution

Randal Hendrickson is a political theorist and host of PODOPTICON, a politics, history, and culture podcast. Aside from Wendy Syfret’s lonely voice, we tend not to call ourselves “nihilists.” It is something we call our opponents, as Max Boot does here. “Nihilist” … Continue reading Your Opponents Aren’t Nihilists

Greg Weiner is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Assumption University. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is a regular contributor for The Constitutionalist. There are no winners in the cultural and political eruption … Continue reading Principled Consistency: The First Casualty of Roe

This is the third in a series of essays about Jonathan Rauch’s new book, The Constitution of Knowledge. His series is sponsored by Claremont McKenna’s Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom. Steven Teles is Professor of Political Science at … Continue reading Birds Flock Together: The Need for Intellectual Diversity in Institutions of Knowledge