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Allen Mendenhall is a Senior Advisor at the Heritage Foundation. Previously, he was Associate Dean and Grady Rosier Professor in the Sorrell College of Business at Troy University, where he directed the Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy. His books include Literature and Liberty: Essays in Libertarian Literary Criticism (2014), Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence of Agon: Aesthetic Dissent and the Common Law (2017), Of Bees and Boys: Lines from a Southern La…

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The Court's Supreme Injustice - Los Angeles Review of Books

The Court's Supreme Injustice - Los Angeles Review of Books

PAUL FINKELMAN is an anomaly: a historian with no law degree who's held chairs or fellowships at numerous law…

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Gorsuch and natural law: He's not another SCOTUS faux-philosopher

Gorsuch and natural law: He's not another SCOTUS faux-philosopher

Much has been made of the fact that Donald Trump Donald John Trump Trump uses discrediting skills on Mueller …

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Donald Trump The Cowboy

Donald Trump The Cowboy

Americans love film, a medium we've popularized across the globe. We're home to Hollywood; we pioneered cinem…

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The Roy Moore I Know

The Roy Moore I Know

Friends remember how 'Chief' stood up for black defendants.

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Luther Strange gives Alabamans a chance

Luther Strange gives Alabamans a chance

Roy Moore and Luther Strange are headed to a runoff in the Alabama Republican primary to fill the Senate seat…

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Consistently Inconsistent: On Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. - Los Angeles Review of Books

Consistently Inconsistent: On Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. - Los Angeles Review of Books

DO WE NEED another biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., who served nearly 30 years as an Associate Justice…

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Allen Mendenhall: To understand conservatism, read Richard Weaver

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By Allen Mendenhall
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A Liberty Fund colloquium is one of the last redoubts of a nearly extinct practice: a room of strangers, difficult texts, and days spent discussing them carefully together. While preparing for the next one, I have been rereading Richard Weaver and rediscovering why he remains indispensable to anyone who wants to understand American conservatism as something more substantial than a bundle of cultural markers: gun ownership, church attendance, flag-waving.
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Allen Mendenhall: Football in the South

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By Allen Mendenhall
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I travel, these days, as other men breathe: ceaselessly across a country I have come to know and love through airports and the peculiar hum of hotel air conditioners. I write this, in fact, from just such a room, the kind with a Gideon Bible in the bedside drawer and, on the wall, an impressionistic watercolor of a lighthouse that exists nowhere in reality.
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Allen Mendenhall: Whose interest is the RSA voting?

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By Allen Mendenhall
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Shareholder capitalism, like democracy, is government by the consent of the governed, and consent presumes that someone is keeping minutes.
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