Law & Liberty

To best appreciate David Hume’s place in the history of ideas, Max Skjönsberg prescinds from Hume, the-larger-than-life character and caustic commentator on the politics of his day, and focuses on Hume, the political philosopher. Skjönsberg adopts the lens ...

Editor’s Note: This is the third and final essay in a symposium on the executive removal cases, Trump v. Slaughter and Trump v. Cook. The first essay can be read here and the second essay

Is New York Times v. Sullivan, the case in which the Supreme Court sharply limited libel suits by public officials—a group later expanded to “public figures”—now on shaky ground?

Not long ago that would have been unthinkable. But nowadays, particularly in the wake of a stiff and scholarly Clarence Thomas dissent in McKee v. Cosby, it’s become so t...

Editor’s Note: This is the second of three essays in a symposium on the executive removal cases, Trump v. Slaughter and Trump v. Cook. The first essay can be read here, and the third essay will be published tomorrow.

On June 29, the Sup...

Editor’s Note: This is the first of three essays in a symposium on the executive removal cases, Trump v. Slaughter and Trump v. Cook. The following essays will be published on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Chief Justice John Roberts’s twentieth year on the Supreme Court demonstrates the contradictions of his career. There is Chief Justice Rober...