Collected blog posts from 2015 to the present.
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“Simplify, simplify,” The Literary Lawyer (June 12, 2024). Originally appeared here in The Troy Messenger.
“Campus protests have reached Alabama. What should our universities do?” The Literary Lawyer (June 5, 2024). Originally appeared here in Alabama Political Reporter and here in AL.com.
“Are you a jerk?” The Literary Lawyer (April 24, 2024). Originally appeared here in The Troy Messenger.
“Of Work and Generational Conflict,” The Literary Lawyer (March 27, 2024). Originally appeared here in The Troy Messenger.
“Never Fear to Make Mistakes,” The Literary Lawyer (February 28, 2024). Originally appeared here in The Troy Messenger.
“Friendship, civility, and respectful disagreement,” The Literary Lawyer (February 21, 2024). Originally appeared here in Alabama Political Reporter.
“Don’t change the purpose of corporations,” The Literary Lawyer (April 12, 2023). Originally appeared here in 1819 News.
“Advice for Millennials,” The Literary Lawyer (April 5, 2023). Originally appeared here in Alabama Political Reporter.
“The Power of Woke,” The Literary Lawyer (March 29, 2023). Originally appeared here in Mises.org.
“ESG, Banks, and Viewpoint Diversity,” The Literary Lawyer (December 7, 2022). Originally appeared here in 1819 News.
“e.e. in the U.S.S.R.,” The Literary Lawyer (August 25, 2022). Originally appeared here in Discourse Magazine.
“Review of Benjamin and Jenna Storey’s Why We Are Restless,” The Literary Lawyer (May 26, 2022).
“Time for a New University?” The Literary Lawyer (November 24, 2021). Originally appeared here in Law & Liberty.
“Why is everyone talking about inflation?” The Literary Lawyer (October 15, 2021). Originally appeared here in Alabama Political Reporter.
“Woke but Broke: How US Colleges are Pricing Students, Themselves Out of Business,” The Literary Lawyer (April 28, 2021). Originally appeared here in The Daily Signal.
“The News Makes You Dumb,” The Literary Lawyer (August 19, 2020). Originally appeared here in Public Discourse.
“Review of Adam J. MacLeod’s The Age of Selfies,” The Literary Lawyer (August 5, 2020). Originally appeared here in The University Bookman.
“Review of Marcus Witcher’s Getting Right with Reagan,” The Literary Lawyer (July 29, 2020). Originally appeared here in The Alabama Political Reporter.
“What Austrian Economists Can Learn from Roger Scruton,” The Literary Lawyer (June 17, 2020). Originally appeared here in The Imaginative Conservative.
“Mixing It Up,” The Abbeville Blog (May 11, 2020).
“Southern Exposure: ‘Branden Saved Years of My Life,” The Literary Lawyer (May 6, 2020). Originally appeared here at Atlas Society.
“Nathaniel Branden, In His Own Words,” The Literary Lawyer (April 29, 2020). Originally appeared here at Atlas Society.
“Nathaniel Branden’s Oedipus Complex,” The Literary Lawyer (April 22, 2020). Originally appeared here at Atlas Society.
“The Legacy of Nathaniel Branden,” The Literary Lawyer (April 15, 2020). Originally appeared here at Atlas Society.
“Alcohol to the Rescue!” The Literary Lawyer (April 8, 2020). Originally appeared here at the American Institute for Economic Research.
“What Coronavirus Teaches Us About Human Connection,” The Literary Lawyer (April 1, 2020). Originally appeared here at the American Institute for Economic Research.
“Civility, Humility, and the Pursuit of Knowledge,” The Literary Lawyer (March 25, 2020). Originally appeared here (under a different title) at the American Institute for Economic Research.
“Russell Kirk on Higher Education,” The Literary Lawyer (February 2, 2020).
“What do ‘Change’ and ‘Equality’ Mean?” The Literary Lawyer (November 6, 2019).
“St. George Tucker’s Jeffersonian Constitution,” The Literary Lawyer (October 30, 2019).
“St. George Tucker’s Jeffersonian Constitution,” LewRockwell.com (October 12, 2019).
“St. George Tucker’s Jeffersonian Constitution,” The Abbeville Blog (October 11, 2019).
“Review of Stephen Budiansky’s Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.,” The Literary Lawyer (September 25, 2019).
“The United States is Not a Nation,” The Literary Lawyer (September 11, 2019). Originally appeared here at Mises Wire.
“Teaching Humbly and Without Malice,” The Literary Lawyer (September 4, 2019). Originally appeared here at the Library of Law & Liberty.
“On Patrick Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed,” The Literary Lawyer (August 28, 2019).
“The United States is Not a Nation,” The Abbeville Blog (August 1, 2019). Originally appeared here at Mises Wire.
“The Moral Imagination and the Common Law,” The Literary Lawyer (June 12, 2019).
“Prospective Law Students Should Consider These Questions,” The Literary Lawyer (June 5, 2019).
“Think Progress Publishes Fake News,” The Abbeville Blog (May 20, 2019).
“A (Mostly) Misbegotten Attempt to Take Scalia’s Measure,” The Literary Lawyer (May 15, 2019). Originally appeared here at the Library of Law & Liberty.
“El marxismo cultural es real,” The Literary Lawyer (May 1, 2019). Originally appeared here at the Mises Institute.
“Taxis and Cosmos: A Clarifying Table,” The Literary Lawyer (April 3, 2019).
“Cultural Marxism is Real,” The Literary Lawyer (March 27, 2019). Originally appeared here at the James Martin Center for Academic Renewal.
“John William Corrington on the History of Gnosticism,” The Literary Lawyer (March 20, 2019).
“Seth Vannatta’s Justice Holmes,” The Literary Lawyer (March 6, 2019).
“La defensa de Hayek de las comunidades descentralizadas,” The Literary Lawyer (January 30, 2019). Originally appeared here at Mises Wire.
“Hayek’s Case for Decentralized Communities,” The Literary Lawyer (January 16, 2019). Originally appeared here at Mises Wire.
“What, Then, Is Creativity,” The Literary Lawyer (January 9, 2019). Originally appeared here in The Imaginative Conservative.
“What the new Carnegie classifications mean for Alabama universities,” The Literary Lawyer (December 19, 2018). Originally appeared here in the Alabama Political Reporter.
“John William Corrington on Gnosticism and Modern Thought,” The Literary Lawyer (December 12, 2018).
“Focus on Reining in the American Bar Association,” The Literary Lawyer (December 3, 2018). Originally appeared here at the blog of the National Association of Scholars.
“Casey Michel’s Poor Reporting About YesCalifornia,” The Literary Lawyer (December 2, 2018).
“John William Corrington on Science, Symbol, and Meaning,” The Literary Lawyer (November 28, 2018).
“Music and the Arts Over Partisan Politics,” Spirit of Cecilia (November 15, 2018).
“Review of Amy Chua’s Political Tribes,” The Literary Lawyer (November 14, 2018).
“John William Corrington on the Recovery of the Humanities,” The Literary Lawyer (November 7, 2018).
“John William Corrington on the Academic Revolution,” The Literary Lawyer (October 31, 2018).
“John William Corrington on ‘The Message’ as ‘Art,'” The Literary Lawyer (October 24, 2018).
“John William Corrington on Intuition and Intellect,” The Literary Lawyer (October 17, 2018).
“Who Was John William Corrington?” The Literary Lawyer (October 10, 2018).
“John William Corrington’s Credo for Poets,” The Literary Lawyer (October 3, 2018).
“John William Corrington on the Mystery of Writing,” The Literary Lawyer (September 19, 2018).
“The Kavanaugh Hearings Were a Missed Opportunity—For Both Sides,” The Literary Lawyer (September 12, 2018). Originally appeared here in The Intercollegiate Review.
“Is Ocasio-Cortez Right About Rights?” The Literary Lawyer (August 29, 2018). Originally appeared here in The Intercollegiate Review.
“Why Universities Must Embrace Free Speech—Or Else,” The Literary Lawyer (August 22, 2018). Originally appeared here in The Federalist.
“Review of Paul Finkelman’s Supreme Injustice,” The Literary Lawyer (August 8, 2018). Originally appeared here in The Los Angeles Review of Books.
“A Better Sort of Constitutional Learning: James McClellan’s Liberty, Order, and Justice,” The Literary Lawyer (July 25, 2018). Originally appeared here in the Library of Law and Liberty.
“Review of Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against Education,” The Literary Lawyer (July 11, 2018). Originally appeared here in Cato Journal.
“Carnegie Classifications—What’s All the Fuss?” The Literary Lawyer (June 27, 2018). Originally appeared here at the James Martin Center for Academic Renewal.
“Qualifications of Judges and Law Professors: A Telling Mismatch,” The Literary Lawyer (June 6, 2018). Originally appeared here in the Library of Law and Liberty.
“What is Federalism?” The Literary Lawyer (May 16, 2018).
“What is Polycentric Law?” The Literary Lawyer (May 2, 2018).
“What is Libertarianism?” The Literary Lawyer (April 18, 2018).
“A Different Kind of Score Settling in the #MeToo Age,” The Literary Lawyer (April 4, 2018). Originally appeared here in The American Spectator.
“Licensing Away Economic Prosperity,” The Literary Lawyer (March 21, 2018). Originally appeared here in Alabama Political Reporter.
“What Is Conservatism?” The Literary Lawyer (March 14, 2018).
“What Is Pragmatism?” The Literary Lawyer (February 28, 2018).
“How Much Legislative Power Do Judges Really Have?” The Literary Lawyer (February 14, 2018). Originally appeared here in The Intercollegiate Review.
“Review of Richard Posner’s The Federal Judiciary,” The Literary Lawyer (December 27, 2017). Originally appeared here in The Los Angeles Review of Books.
“Redeeming the Debauched Falstaff,” The Literary Lawyer (November 15, 2017). Originally appeared here in The American Conservative.
“Bob Higgs, the Man with a Smart Card,” The Literary Lawyer (October 11, 2017). Original version appeared here in the Library of Law and Liberty.
“How to Fight the ABA’s Anticompetitive and Discriminatory Practices,” The Literary Lawyer (September 13, 2017). Originally appeared here at the James Martin Center for Academic Renewal.
“Making Legal Education Great Again,” The Literary Lawyer (August 30, 2017). Originally appeared here at the James Martin Center for Academic Renewal.
“On Judicial Concurring and Dissenting Opinions,” The Literary Lawyer (August 23, 2017).
“Part Three: Review of Nathaniel Branden Issue of the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies,” The Literary Lawyer (July 12, 2017). Original series appeared here, here, here, and here.
“Part Two: Review of Nathaniel Branden Issue of the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies,” The Literary Lawyer (July 5, 2017). Original series appeared here, here, here, and here.
“The American Bar Association Stifles Legal Education,” The Literary Lawyer (June 28, 2017). Originally appeared here in the Library of Law and Liberty.
“Part One: Review of Nathaniel Branden Issue of the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies,” The Literary Lawyer (June 21, 2017). Original series appeared here, here, here, and here.
“What Is the Rule of Law, Anyway?” The Literary Lawyer, June 7, 2017. Originally appeared here in The Intercollegiate Review.
“The Circuitous Path of Papa and Ezra,” The Literary Lawyer, May 24, 2017. Originally appeared here in The American Conservative.
“The Challenge Facing Law Schools,” The Literary Lawyer, May 10, 2017.
“Love and the Law Professors,” The Literary Lawyer, March 30, 2017. Originally appeared here in The University Bookman.
“Donald Trump the Cowboy,” The Literary Lawyer, March 22, 2017. Originally appeared here in The Daily Caller.
“Mens Rea and the Common Law,” The Literary Lawyer, March 15, 2017.
“Our Real Constitution—And What Happened to It,” The Literary Lawyer, January 25, 2017. Originally appeared here in The University Bookman.
“Richard Posner is a Monster,” The Literary Lawyer, January 11, 2017. Originally appeared here in Los Angeles Review of Books.
“Review of The Final Days of American Shopping, by Gilbert Allen,” The Literary Lawyer, November 30, 2016. Originally appeared here in Southern Literary Review.
“Ideas Make Us Rich,” Mises Wire, October 28, 2016.
“Deidre McCloskey and the Enrichment of the World,” The Literary Lawyer, October 26, 2016.
“The Unmeaning of Unmeaning,” The Literary Lawyer, October 19, 2016. Originally appeared here in Chronicles.
“The Antiwar Tradition in American Letters,” The Literary Lawyer, October 12, 2016. Originally appeared here in Antiwar.com.
“The Problem With Socialism,” The Literary Lawyer, September 28, 2016. Originally appeared here in The Daily Caller.
“Just for the Summer,” The Literary Lawyer, September 14, 2016.
“A Brief Conversion Narrative,” The Literary Lawyer, September 7, 2016.
“The Trial Scene in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice,” The Literary Lawyer, August 31, 2016.
“Socialism: The World’s Greatest Generator of Poverty,” Mises Wire, August 19, 2016.
“How Unelected Bureaucrats Became Liberty’s Nemesis,” The Literary Lawyer, August 17, 2016. Originally appeared here in The Federalist.
“Make America Mobile Again,” The Literary Lawyer, August 10, 2016. Originally appeared here in The American Spectator.
“The Inside War,” The Abbeville Blog, August 5, 2016.
“The Conservative Mindset,” The Literary Lawyer, July 20, 2016. Originally appeared here in Los Angeles Review of Books.
“The Sad Career of Justice Stephen Breyer,” The Literary Lawyer, May 5, 2016. Originally appeared here in The Imaginative Conservative.
“Judges and Dons,” The Literary Lawyer, April 27, 2016. Originally appeared here in The University Bookman.
“Bond and Bonding in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice,” The Literary Lawyer, April 6, 2016.
“The Moral Case for Property Rights,” The Literary Lawyer, March 9, 2016. Originally appeared here in The Library of Law and Liberty.
“What is a Condominium?” The Literary Lawyer, February 17, 2016.
“Attuned to the Daimon,” The Literary Lawyer, January 27, 2016. Originally appeared here in The Library of Law and Liberty.
“El negocio sucio de la recogida pública de basuras,” The Literary Lawyer, January 13, 2016.
“Adiós, Richard Posner,” The Literary Lawyer, December 23, 2015.
“The Dirty Business of Government Trash Collection,” The Literary Lawyer, November 25, 2015. Originally appeared here at Mises Daily.
“John William Corrington: A Different Kind of Conservative,” The Literary Lawyer, November 18, 2015.
“Was Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. a Conservative?” The Literary Lawyer, November 4, 2015.
“John William Corrington and Southern Conservatism,” The Abbeville Blog, October 29, 2015.
“Allen Mendenhall Interviews Joyce Corrington,” The Literary Lawyer, October 28, 2015.
“Atticus Finch: Still a Hero?” The Literary Lawyer, October 21, 2015.
“Learning What We Don’t Know,” The Literary Lawyer, September 9, 2015. Originally appeared here in The University Bookman.
“The Dissents of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,” The Literary Lawyer, September 2, 2015.
“The Majority Opinions of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,” The Literary Lawyer, August 26, 2015.
“Boswell Gets His Due,” The Literary Lawyer, August 19, 2015. Originally appeared here in Liberty.
“Harold Bloom’s American Sublime,” The Literary Lawyer, August 12, 2015. Originally appeared here in The American Conservative.
“Harold Bloom’s American Sublime,” Letter & Spirit: Literature and Justice for All, August 3, 2015. Originally appeared here in The American Conservative.
“Interview with Hubert Crouch,” The Literary Lawyer, July 29, 2015. Originally appeared here in Southern Literary Review.
“Review of Adam Zamoyski’s Phantom Terror,” The Literary Lawyer, July 22, 2015. Originally appeared here in Taki’s Magazine.
“Boswell Gets His Due,” Letter & Spirit: Literature and Justice for All (Liberty.me), July 7, 2015.
Review of A Late Encounter With the Civil War, by Michael Kreyling,” The Literary Lawyer, July 1, 2015. Originally appeared here in Southern Literary Review.