American legal scholar
The Liberty and Law Center at Antonin Scalia Law School is publishing a series of articles dealing with “the Second Amendment and civil unrest.” Although the series was originally inspired…
John McGinnis writes at Law and Liberty about two competing views of the U.S. Constitution. The Senate hearing on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court shows…
Metaphors, stories, and parables help us glimpse the unseeable, touch the unapproachable, and plumb the unfathomable. We learn from experience and example. As knowledge of the world grows more specialized,…
In a recent post at the Law and Liberty blog, John McGinnis explains how, “Elite Constraints on Democracy Encourage Populism”: Over the weekend the New York Times published another in…
A level playing field. Equal opportunity. Less government interference and more personal choice and responsibility. They’re three ways to describe the limited government view — some might say classical liberalism.…
John McGinnis writes for the Library of Law and Liberty about one of the most significant differences between Judge Neil Gorsuch and the man he would succeed on the U.S.…
Legal scholar John McGinnis ends a generally negative discussion of recent confirmation hearings on a postive note: In the House Armed Service Committee’s hearing on the waiver for General Mattis to…
That’s a line from a Labor Day blog post by John McGinnis. After noting that : Sigmund Freud was not right about everything, but he was certainly correct that love and work are…
View in your browser. There have been some significant recent developments in two lawsuits involving the separation of powers, both of which were filed in Wake County Superior Court last…
As Locker Room readers are no doubt well aware, two weeks ago Chief Justice Roberts delivered the majority opinion in King v. Burwell. He held that, in the context of…
View in your browser. As readers are no doubt well aware, two weeks ago Chief Justice Roberts delivered the majority opinion in King v. Burwell. He held that, in the…
View in your browser. Contemporary Culture and the Rule of Law Legal scholar John McGinnis has written an interesting review of a play that explores the psychological roots of Antonin…