individual rights

Cliff Sloan’s new book explains how the Franklin Roosevelt-shaped Court wrestled with individual rights as the nation fought to save itself and the world.

And it’s not simply that he calls himself a socialist.

A new book correctly diagnoses how non-elected agencies are running the country, but falls short on how it got this way.

America’s favorite gun.

In a recent Supreme Court oral argument about disarming domestic abusers, originalism itself was put to the test.

His works underpins the Dobbs decision. His legacy matters enormously to what's next for constitutional law.

A new book seeks to explain why many Americans, especially but not exclusively in the South, have understood freedom as an entitlement for white people.

Anthony Comstock, the 19th-century scourge of art and sex, is suddenly relevant again thanks to Donald Trump’s worst judge.

How the utopian notion of the U.S. as a meritocracy became so ingrained in the American psyche.

Baptists were never monolithic on the issue of slavery, but Southern Baptists were united in their opposition to Northern Baptists determining their beliefs.

A conversation about changing the American story.

Fights over fugitive slave laws pitted states against each other and showcased the risks of the federal government not supporting liberty.

History shows laws will end up as weapons deployed in discriminatory ways to curtail freedom.

The conservative Supreme Court's favorite judicial philosophy requires a very, very firm grasp of history — one that none of the justices seem to possess.

The Supreme Court has found protections for people’s privacy in several constitutional amendments – and used it as a basis for some fundamental protections.

Calls for the court to remain neutral have long been tools for denying Americans rights.

In 1905, the high court made a fateful ruling with eerie parallels to today: One person’s liberty can’t trump everyone else’s.

Dress codes are about social control, not student wellbeing.

Those who claim that vaccine resistance is an expression of liberty are historically illiterate.

History shows that the benefits of such a system can extend far beyond the venues into which such a passport would grant admission .