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

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