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

This is the second 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. Adam J. White is a senior fellow at … Continue reading Reconstituting Our Institutions of Knowledge

This is the first 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. Keith E. Whittington is the William Nelson Cromwell … Continue reading Constituting Knowledge in Academia

This is the first 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 ofIndividual Freedom. Jonathan Rauch is a senior fellow at the Brookings … Continue reading It’s the Institutions, Stupid: The Constitution of Knowledge

Seth Weinberger is Professor of Politics & Government at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. With the stunningly rapid collapse of the Afghan National Army and the abdication of power by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, the U.S.’s 20 … Continue reading One Lesson to Learn from the Withdrawal from Afghanistan…And One Not to Learn

Nicholas Buccola is the author of The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America. He is the Elizabeth and Morris Glicksman Chair in Political Science at Linfield University. In their … Continue reading Learning to Love Like James Baldwin

Jeffrey C. Isaac is the James H. Rudy Professor in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University. Professor Isaac’s research is in the area of political theory. Biden’s Afghanistan Speech Would Have Been Terrific Two Months Ago, Before Instead of … Continue reading Biden’s Afghanistan