Liberty Law Talk

Liberty Law Talk episodes:

• 08.14.2023

  Israel's Judges

  The controversy surrounding recent judicial reforms reflects deep and longstanding divisions on the role courts in Israeli society.

  
• 07.20.2023

  The Term in Review

  As attacks on its legitimacy intensified, the Court issued important opinions on free speech, the administrative state, and our colorblind Constitution.

  
• 07.14.2023

  The State of the West

  The cultural and racial discourse of the West increasingly distorts our moral judgment and self-understanding.

  
• 07.07.2023

  The Founders' Intellectual World

  The American founders inherited a rich tradition from the classical and Christian world.

  
• 06.21.2023

  The Life of Leadership

  From Plutarch to Kissinger, we continue to learn from studying the lives of great statesmen.

  
• 06.15.2023

  Recognizing Real Difference

  Whether you're looking at the Romans or today, perceiving difference is difficult yet essential for understanding our world.

  
• 05.25.2023

  The Conservative Encounter with Leviathan

  In the twentieth century, various intellectual factions struggled to define how conservatism should respond to a transformed constitutional order.

  
• 05.11.2023

  Classic Caution for Modern Strategy

  By helping us recover a sense of the tragic, the classics can temper our expectations for political endeavors.

  
• 04.27.2023

  The Kennedy Moment

  Kennedy's brief presidency came at a pivotal time for civil rights, the Cold War, and American Catholicism.

  
• 04.13.2023

  Passing the Baton

  The handoff from Bush to Obama gives us a glimpse into post-9/11 foreign policy and the requirements for an orderly transfer of power.

  
• 04.10.2023

  Uncovering Who the Nazis Really Were

  Ninety years ago today, Wilhelm Röpke confronted an audience in Frankfurt am Main about where Hitler was leading Germany.

  
• 03.30.2023

  Tocqueville in Hypermodernity

  In the Islamic world and in the West. education must teach students how to confront both modernity and radical attempts to re-enchant the world.

  
• 03.21.2023

  The View from Israel

  Israel tends to make American headlines only for violence and geopolitics. But there's much more to the Jewish nation.

  
• 03.10.2023

  Inventing American Constitutionalism

  Gordon S. Wood joins Brian A. Smith to discuss his most recent book, Power and Liberty, as well as trends in the study of history.

  
• 02.28.2023

  Why We Need to Read

  The trouble with many defenses of the West or the classics is that they don't succeed in persuading people to return to the texts.

  
• 02.24.2023

  Statecraft Etched in Stone

  An ancient inscription gives us a peek into the rise and reign of a Bronze Age king, and a sense of the thin line between order and chaos.

  
• 02.02.2023

  A Priest of Liberal Nationalism

  John Foster Dulles represented the apex of liberal mainline Protestantism's influence on American power and policy.

  
• 12.30.2022

  The Jeffersonian Republic

  Kevin R. C. Gutzman joins Liberty Law Talk to discuss his latest book, The Jeffersonians.

  
• 12.16.2022

  Libertarian Crossroads?

  Just how anti-state should libertarianism be?

  
• 12.02.2022

  America's Economic Crossroads

  Despite having the better economic arguments, classical liberals have failed to make the public case for free markets. How can they turn things around?

  
• 11.13.2022

  Confucian Natural Law?

  How compatible are East and West?

  
• 11.03.2022

  The Inalienable Right to Religious Liberty

  Vincent Phillip Muñoz discusses the natural rights foundations of religious freedom.

  
• 10.31.2022

  Men (Not) at Work

  Nicholas Eberstadt discusses the phenomenon of workless American men with host Samuel Gregg.

  
• 10.18.2022

  Reading the Hebrew Bible

  James Bruce joins the podcast to discuss the challenges of faithful translation and how our sense of justice shapes our understanding of God.

  
• 10.18.2022

  Markets in America

  Brian A. Smith talks with Samuel Gregg about his new book The Next American Economy.

  
• 09.16.2022

  Aquinas's Common Good

  William McCormick discusses Thomas Aquinas, his intellectual influences, and the "hard work" of politics with James Patterson.

  
• 08.26.2022

  Adam Smith's Jurisprudence

  James Otteson talks with Samuel Gregg about Adam Smith's understudied Lectures on Jurisprudence.

  
• 07.13.2022

  The Constitutional Pivot

  John McGinnis discusses Dobbs, Bruen, and the Supreme Court's originalist turn.

  
• 06.16.2022

  Rebuilding a Culture of Academic Freedom

  Keith Whittington discusses the work of the Academic Freedom Alliance.

  
• 04.15.2022

  Studying Patton

  Furman Daniel discusses the life and mind of Gen. George S. Patton

  
• 04.12.2022

  Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

  Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

  
• 04.12.2022

  The Spiritual Quest of Identity Politics

  Joshua Mitchell discusses the spiritual scapegoating and claims of innocence and power in the burgeoning identity politics movement.

  
• 04.05.2022

  Will We Be Sino-formed?

  China has no desire for war or military confrontation with America. It does desire global economic domination in many respects.

  
• 03.15.2022

  Conservative Nationalism and American Statecraft

  Colin Dueck discusses his new book, Age of Iron, with Richard Reinsch

  
• 01.31.2022

  Willmoore Kendall‘s Democratic Faith

  A discussion with Christopher Owen, author of Heaven Can Indeed Fall.

  
• 12.23.2021

  Grappling With Logistics

  Michael Rentz joins Liberty Law Talk to discuss the global supply chain at its breaking point.

  
• 12.15.2021

  What's Wrong With America?

  Sam Gregg reviews a country in crisis.

  
• 12.02.2021

  Understanding Lee

  Allen Guelzo tells us about the life of Robert E. Lee.

  
• 12.01.2021

  Industrial Policy Dreams Perpetually Deferred

  Scott Lincicome considers the full set of issues that make industrial policy an untenable, unworkable solution for any country that wants economic growth.

  
• 11.11.2021

  History of Violence: A Conversation with Barry Latzer

  This podcast with criminologist Barry Latzer focuses on the surprising findings in his latest book, The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America. Latzer discusses the violent crime wave that began in the mid 1960’s and how its sharp fall in...

  
• 11.01.2021

  Provoking an Educational Renaissance

  James Hankins outlines a path forward on an education that prepares students for a life of dignified freedom and citizenship.

  
• 10.15.2021

  Abusing the Power of the Purse

  Philip Hamburger discusses how the government bypasses the Constitution and the rule of law to secure our submission to its will.

  
• 10.13.2021

  The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly

  In this episode of Liberty Law Talk, I discuss with Professor John Inazu his new book Liberty’s Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly. Inazu offers his thoughts on resurrecting this most important constitutional doctrine from the doldrums where it languishes...

  
• 10.01.2021

  The Collapse of American Legal Authority

  Steven Smith discusses his book Fiction, Lies, and the Authority of Law.

  
• 10.01.2021

  Understanding Black Lives Matter

  Mike Gonzalez discusses his new book BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution.

  
• 09.22.2021

  Achieving America's Peace

  Angelo Codevilla comes to Liberty Law Talk to discuss his latest book To Make and Keep Peace Among Ourselves and with All Nations. Our conversation focuses on Codevilla’s main argument that American statesmen increasingly fail to understand the nature and purpose...

  
• 09.13.2021

  The Revised Version of American Religious Freedom: A Conversation with Steven Smith

  This next episode of Liberty Law Talk is with Steven Smith on his new book The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom. Our conversation explores Smith’s challenge to the dominant academic narrative that the Supreme Court’s mid-twentieth century decisions...

  
• 08.31.2021

  Supreme Court Roundup 2020-21

  Richard Reinsch (00:19): Hello, and welcome to Liberty Law Talk I’m Richard Reinsch. Today we’re talking with John McGinnis about the recently concluded Supreme Court term of 2020 and 2021. John McGinnis, many of you will know is a contributing...

  
• 08.20.2021

  American Heresies and the Betrayal of the National Interest: A Conversation with Walter McDougall

  Walter McDougall discusses how America's civil religion has shaped our foreign policy.

  
• 08.16.2021

  How to be a Conservative

  Editor’s Note: This podcast was originally posted on October 13, 2014. This conversation with Roger Scruton engages his defense of the conservative disposition. Scruton’s just-released book, How to be a Conservative, might be said to take on the challenge Friedrich...