Those in the West who wish to “burn down” society don’t know how grim the alternative is.
On Liberty Law Talk with
@_HelenDale
,
@DouglasKMurray
explains why the notion that we should tear apart society can only be voiced by people with enormous privilege.
Why are so many in the West drawn to self-hatred? Is this contemporary moment just a speck in time, or is it becoming part of the fabric of our society?
Consider further on the latest episode of Liberty Law Talk with
@_HelenDale
and
@DouglasKMurray
.
Turkey has instigated the war as part of a larger geopolitical strategy that involves military action in Syria and Libya, as well as threats against Greece and Israel.
The cultural and racial discourse of the West increasingly distorts our moral judgment and self-understanding.
More from
@_HelenDale
and
@DouglasKMurray
on the latest episode of Liberty Law Talk.
The American right should be ashamed of their admiration of
@nayibbukele
, writes
@plynch1966
.
The fact that he has ended El Salvador's violent crime epidemic does not justify his betrayal of liberal ideals and principles.
Following the Left’s takeover of many of our American institutions, we are now seeing them march through the corporations.
@Gundisalvus
of
@Heritage
explains:
Senior writer
@_HelenDale
looks deeper into the self-loathing progressive West in her review of
@KonstantinKisin
’s “An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West”:
“You and I may be able to fly by the seat of our pants, but people in the business of doling out life-altering hormones and major surgery should not.”
- Senior Writer
@_HelenDale
in her insightful review of
@AbigailShrier
’s “Irreversible Damage.”
How exactly did woke become the established religion of the American left?
This question is the focus of two recent books,
@realchrisrufo
’s best-selling “America’s Cultural Revolution” and
@RichardHanania
’s “The Origins of Woke.”
More from
@epkaufm
:
In a new book review, senior writer
@_HelenDale
explains how
@andrewdoyle_com
’s “The New Puritans” is perhaps the best attempt so far to define the woke movement.
“The New Puritans—thanks to
@andrewdoyle_com
’s academic background—is scholarly and rigorous. He knows a great deal more about the theory he’s criticising than most of his opponents.”
Senior writer
@_HelenDale
in a new essay.
When does sex matter? Is the transgender movement making the world a less safe place for women? How is sex viewed by the law?
@HJoyceGender
and
@MForstater
of
@SexMattersOrg
sat down with
@_HelenDale
to discuss these questions and more.
“The problems that we face are being generated by a political failure of leadership extending from and reinforcing cultural and social failure.”
Daniel Miller of
@im_1776
closes out our counterrevolution forum.
“To the truckers protesting in Ottawa, the vaccine mandate for cross-border routes was only the latest example of eroding Canadian freedom,” writes
@jobearon
in a new essay.
“If the book has an underlying thesis knitting its 100 stories together, it is probably
@thecoastguy
’s claim—made in various places, not only here—that we are the children and grandchildren of ‘damaged generations.’”
-
@_HelenDale
in her latest review.
“The New Puritans—thanks to
@andrewdoyle_com
’s academic background—is scholarly and rigorous. He knows a great deal more about the theory he’s criticising than most of his opponents.”
Senior writer
@_HelenDale
in a recent essay.
“After abandoning its working-class roots, the news business is in a death spiral as ordinary Americans reject it in growing numbers,” writes
@Heminator
in his review of
@bungarsargon
’s “Bad News.”
US Fish and Wildlife Service protections for the black pinesnake have effectively seized 100,000 acres of land from private owners, bringing up important discussions on the constitutional overreach of the Endangered Species Act.
We are pleased to welcome Michael Lucchese to Law & Liberty as an associate editor. His experience across many disciplines will serve as a great addition to the team.
“The aim of degradation ceremonies is not merely to hurt emotionally, to embarrass, or even to humiliate, but to utterly annihilate social status.”
@lsheahan
explores cancel culture through a new lens:
“
@realchrisrufo
’s merit is in meeting the moment, seizing his opportunity to rouse Americans to righteous anger and public, organized, legal action. We don’t need scholarship for this—we need more Rufos.”
@titusfilm
reviews “America’s Cultural Revolution”
“Religiosity and Christian roots aren’t enough to explain Wokery. Something more is needed. That something more turns out to be a combination of mass hysteria and evidentiary gullibility.”
@_HelenDale
in her review of
@andrewdoyle_com
’s latest book.
The "Great Transformation" brought forth by CRT was underway and spreading fast — that is until ordinary Americans stood up and yelled, “stop!”
@Heritage
Fellow
@Gundisalvus
explains.
In a recent review of
@AbigailShrier
’s “Irreversible Damage,”
@_HelenDale
examines the difficult issue of adolescent gender dysphoria, the damaging treatment plans for it, and how a lack of scholarship is at play in the debate over it.
After two years at the helm of Law & Liberty,
@briansmith1980
will be moving into a new position at Liberty Fund as a Senior Program Officer, working on conferences and special organizational initiatives.
🧵
It has been a privilege to lead such a fantastic department at
@SamfordU
. While I depart with sadness, I am looking forward with excitement to join the
@AssumptionUMA
family on July 1 to contribute to its mission of a Catholic liberal arts education.
With our best wishes for his future work, we announce that Law & Liberty’s Founding Editor,
@Reinsch84
, has accepted a position as a Senior Fellow
@Heritage
. He will also host a new podcast and serve as a regular columnist
@DailySignal
.
In the latest episode of Liberty Law Talk, senior writer
@_HelenDale
dives into the toxicity of cancel culture with one of the most canceled of them all,
@Glinner
.
Beginning today,
@JohnGGrove1
will take over as Editor of Law & Liberty.
John has been part of the Law & Liberty team since 2020, most recently as Managing Editor.
“Both ‘Rear Window’ and ‘Only Murders in the Building’ are democratic art forms that can make us better citizens,” writes Joseph Griffith in a new essay.
“
@jockowillink
doesn't talk much about politics. But he does teach the virtues needed to admit failure, regroup, and attack again.”
- Senior Writer
@Reinsch84
in a new feature essay.
In celebration of Adam Smith’s 300th birthday, Law & Liberty and
@online_liberty
have teamed up to explore his philosophy and legacy.
To start things off, delve into Smith’s ideas on justice with Vernon Smith.
In a courageous 1933 lecture, Wilhelm Röpke explained the value of liberalism—a message still worth considering today.
More from contributing editor
@DrSamuelGregg
:
"That most people aren’t terminally online—or into the shite art produced as a side effect of social justice activism—is reflected in a common response to both the Hate Monster and Comedy Unleashed’s mockery of it." -
@_HelenDale
.
@jk_rowling
's bold stance against Scotland's controversial hate crime legislation has sparked a nationwide debate, exposing flaws in the law and its impact on free speech.
@_HelenDale
on fighting hate monsters.
.
@Roger_Scruton
Conservatism is a comprehensive history of western conservative thought, from Aristotle and Aquinas, through the French and Industrial Revolutions, to the present.
“A pluralistic society demands people capable of tolerating differences, and such tolerance is impossible to sustain without a serious recognition of the dignity of all human persons,” writes
@tylersyck
.
Today, we congratulate contributing editor
@DrSamuelGregg
for being awarded the Bradley Prize. For 20 years,
@BradleyFdn
has been recognizing individuals for work that exemplifies restoring, strengthening, and protecting the principles and institutions of American exceptionalism.
“Conspiracy theories take root easily when people know that media gatekeepers and public health officials are untrustworthy,” writes
@SpencerKlavan
in his review of
@Ayjchan
and
@mattwridley
’s “Viral.”
.
@robkhenderson
’s memoir stings us by revealing the consequences of our own luxury beliefs.
Senior writer
@_HelenDale
explains in her review of “Troubled.”
.
@jockowillink
doesn't talk much about politics. But he does teach the virtues needed to admit failure, regroup, and attack again.
Senior writer
@Reinsch84
explains in this feature essay.
On the latest episode of Liberty Law Talk,
@_HelenDale
and
@Glinner
discuss how cancel culture has spread to all reaches of society.
For Graham, this was experienced first hand in the world of comedy.
Amy Wax: By immersing students in the cult of victimhood and identity politics, law schools are turning out lawyers who are ill-equipped to thoroughly understand and ably represent all sides and aspects of legal questions and disputes.
China may be two generations behind in its domestic production of semiconductors, but it is ahead of the United States in semiconductor applications to industry.
More from Senior writer
@davidpgoldman
on the chip war:
Senior writer
@_HelenDale
looks deeper into the self-loathing progressive West in her review of
@KonstantinKisin
’s “An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West”:
When you think language makes the world, you are frightened of words, explains senior writer
@_HelenDale
in a recent review of
@andrewdoyle_com
’s “Free Speech and Why It Matters.”
“Despite being rejected by the purveyors of ‘prestige opinion,’ Neil Oliver refuses to be anything other than himself,” writes senior writer
@_HelenDale
in her review of
@thecoastguy
’s “The Story of the World in 100 Moments.”
When you think language makes the world, you are frightened of words, explains senior writer
@_HelenDale
in a recent review of
@andrewdoyle_com
’s “Free Speech and Why It Matters.”
“The new Royalist administration did not directly confront traditional feudal authority but gradually spread to occupy all its space.”
@im_1776
’s Daniel Miller opens our April forum on the American counter-revolution:
“Critical Race Theorists see capitalism’s disparities as a function of race, not class. CRT merely adds an R to Critical Theory; it reimagines class warfare as race warfare.”
-
@Gundisalvus
and
@JM_Butcher
on the motives behind Critical Race Theory.
.
@JamesWHankins1
asked AI to write a diversity statement based on specific criteria that a professor would need to write one. The outcome was about what you'd expect, so Professor Hankins wrote an honest one.
The outcome:
“Americans will only escape from the doldrums when we stop thinking of ourselves as victims,” writes
@JamesEBruce
in his review of
@VivekGRamaswamy
’s “Nation of Victims.”
“The urgent practical questions for statesman and citizen alike are: how much political violence is being committed right now? And who’s committing it?”
- Michael Anton from
@ClaremontInst
responds to
@NRO
senior editor
@jaynordlinger
in our latest forum:
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon thought the trans issue would pave the road to Scottish independence. Instead, it showed her the door.
Senior writer
@_HelenDale
explains in a recent essay.
A debate is necessary but isn’t what transgender activists want. This is because women’s existing statutory and common law rights and those rights the lobbyists claim are in conflict, and it’s messy when rights compete.
“A strategy of détente with Russia and China would buy the United States time to rebuild its technological and military capabilities,” explains senior writer
@davidpgoldman
in a new essay.
The superstitio in our universities may lead those institutions to the same fate as the monasteries under Henry VIII, explains senior writer
@_HelenDale
in a new essay:
Friedrich Hayek and his ideas don’t fit the mold that critics of liberalism have made for him.
@allenmendenhall
explains in his review of
@vyadav
’s “Liberalism’s Last Man.”
Without realizing it, we started playing out our lives on a stage with the rise of the Internet.
@Glinner
takes us into the grave consequences of this in a new episode of Liberty Law Talk:
Senior writer
@_HelenDale
looks deeper into the self-loathing progressive West in her review of
@KonstantinKisin
’s “An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West”:
.
@SpencerKlavan
of
@theammind
explains that politics shouldn't determine what counts as art, but the energy released and channeled by art has a profound effect on politics, for good or ill.
@ClaremontInst
“Western commentators sometimes label the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) as conservative. But in a caste-bound land, its founding marked a radical break from the past,” writes
@dhume
in his first piece for Law & Liberty.
The negative reaction to
@elonmusk
's vision of a more open Twitter reveals the decline of free expression as a cultural value.
Contributing editor
@joldmcginn
explains.
"It takes a certain kind of commitment, even fanaticism, to be willing to risk so much in life to expose the truth."
On The Moral Psychology of the Whistleblower:
“Röpke looked for a liberalism purged of rationalist tendencies and infused with normative content reflecting Western civilization's accomplishments,” writes contributing editor
@DrSamuelGregg
in a recent essay.
Contributing editor
@DrSamuelGregg
examines a speech Pope Benedict XVI delivered to the German parliament on the nature of law 66 years after Berlin was stormed by the Soviet army.
Jana Stefanciosa will become Managing Editor.
Jana has over fifteen years of experience in publishing and project management, most recently as Assistant Managing Editor of Law & Liberty.
On the first episode of the new Law & Liberty Podcast with
@McGillPatterson
,
@Reinsch84
discusses how Law & Liberty came to be and the mission of elevating classically liberal voices.
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America faces unprecedented challenges, but history shows that crises can also be turning points for renewal. We must prepare to be the leaders who uphold liberty and reshape our nation's future.
Mitch Daniels on what to do if crisis comes