Editor of a posthumous collection of Banning's essays, "Founding Visions: The Ideas, Individuals, and Intersections that Created America,"...
114 months ago

President George Washington faced a number of difficult challenges during his two terms in office. Washington despised partisanship and voiced his concerns...
58 months ago

The essays are uncoordinated, polemical, hastily written, and a timeless classic of political philosophy. The Federalist—a 180,000-word...
16 months ago

To the extent that James Madison's democratic theory of "temporal republicanism" depends on time, the virtue on which it hinges is patience.
37 months ago

In this story of a frontier village in the early American Republic, Alan Taylor explores the lives of Judge William Cooper and the novelist James Fenimore...
78 months ago

The right wing radio host Mark Levin has had a few good years: He picked up a weekly Fox News show ("Life, Liberty & Levin"); he counts conservative political...
66 months ago

Tyranny Unmasked, by John Taylor. Most political writers have concluded, that a republican government, over a very large territory, cannot exist.
81 months ago

Tony Williams Womersley's volume addresses the sources of American Revolution and how those ideas fashioned American understandings of liberty.
60 months ago

In his book Law's Empire (1998, Oxford: Hart Publishing), Ronald Dworkin touted the mythical Judge Hercules who employed a creative interpretation of the...
10 months ago

Sarah Binder says that, while Madison's vision for Congress has been a sweeping success throughout American history, increased political polarization has...
27 months ago