Essays

October 15, 2026

James Wilson on the Role of Reason and Virtue in Women

September 16, 2026

America’s Lord Coke: James Wilson and the Science of the Common Law

September 16, 2026

“We the People” Under God: What Jesse Wegman Misses in James Wilson

September 16, 2026

Symposium on Jesse Wegman's Biography of James Wilson "The Lost Founder"

August 6, 2026

A Proposal for the Future of Originalism & Natural Law

July 1, 2026

The Declaration Matters to Citizenship: Disappointment in Trump v. Barbara

June 24, 2026

Preserving Our Greatest Gift: The Declaration & Matthew Spalding's "The Making of the American Mind"

May 28, 2026

Who’s Afraid of the Natural Law?

April 22, 2026

Chiles v. Salazar: A Dilemma of Rights and Freedoms

March 10, 2026

Classical Architecture is Our National Architecture

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