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October 15, 2024In the Poetics, Aristotle argues that we are by nature imitators. Poetry, as a type of imitation, gives pleasure because by it, says Aristotle, we “come to understand and...- September 11, 2024David Hume is famous for his seminal contributions to philosophy and economics during the Enlightenment. He may also have been the principal diagnostician of his time. This at least...
August 21, 2024At its inception in seventeenth-century England, our liberal order held that law must be humble. Brutal political conflict had proved that we are incapable of knowing basic moral and...
January 29, 2024Glenn Ellmers is the Salvatori Research Fellow in the American Founding at the Claremont Institute, an influential conservative think tank in California. He believes that the United...
January 18, 2024Essays at Law & Liberty have debated the national conservative challenge to market conservatism. Market conservatism has been the conservative consensus since the Thatcher-Reagan...
January 10, 2024John Mearsheimer is renowned among those in government, think tanks, and universities who reflect on strategy and foreign affairs. Despite that, he is something of an outlier. It is...
January 1, 2024It is not too strong to say that the writings of Oxford don, J. R. R. Tolkien, are a pillar of our collective psyche. But for Tolkien, there is no Harry Potter or Game...
