A draft of my chapter on "Land Use Regulation" for the forthcoming Routledge Handbook on Classical Liberalism (edited by Richard Epstein, Liya Palagashvili, and Mario Rizzo) is now available on SSRN.

As President Trump governs from a mélange of conservative principles, many are wondering whether classical liberalism can find a home alongside the New Right. International relations scholar Francis ...

It’s safe to assume that the recently announced presidential debates will, as usual, be largely performative. Even so, throughout the year, ideas will be contested and debated (ad nauseum), as they ...

The West is once again mobilizing to strengthen African democracy. The Ford, MacArthur, and Open Society foundations recently launched a $20 million West Africa Democracy Fund, a seemingly ...

Abstract: Classical liberals have been more preoccupied by domestic policy and institutions than by international affairs. This paper makes the case for a classical liberal foreign policy outlook that ...

Liberal education originated in classical Greece and Rome. Variants flourished in Christendom and during the Enlightenment. In all its forms, liberal education furnished knowledge of the tradition ...

In the early months of 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court decided two cases that might not initially appear to share anything in common. In Tyson and Brother v. Banton, the Supreme Court struck down a New ...

Rachel was a Visiting Fellow for Heritage’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies and the Center for Education Policy. A classical liberal arts education broadens students’ horizons beyond the ...