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Allen Mendenhall

Auburn, Washington, D.C.
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Senior Advisor & Research Fellow, @Heritage. Father, Lawyer, Author, Novelist, Academic. Rts & tweets ≠ endorsements.

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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…

Allen Mendenhall’s Journalist Portfolio

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: AOC’s Alabama problem

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By Allen Mendenhall
| 1819 News
When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) recently declared that New York must “pull up” to southern states like Alabama and explain to its citizens what they had “uncorked,” she revived one of the oldest conceits in American public life: the notion that wisdom is concentrated somewhere between Manhattan and Georgetown and must periodically be exported to the provinces. This attitude is familiar enough; denouncing Alabama is profitable.
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Allen Mendenhall: Children between Portugal and Spain

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By Allen Mendenhall
| 1819 News
Portugal was not my idea. Early this year, my ex-wife informed me that she intended to take our children, Noah and Gabriela, on a trip to Lisbon. Her brother lives there. Her mother would be joining for a spell. She is Brazilian, fluent in Portuguese, and as confident as someone who has always known precisely where she belongs. I do not possess this quality.
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Are Lawyers Illiterate?

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By Allen Mendenhall
| The Imaginative Conservative
Lawyers are illiterate, most of them anyway. Trust them to handle your real estate closings or to manage your negligence claims, to finalize your divorce or to dash off angry letters to your competitors, but do not trust them to instruct you on plain living and high thinking.
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