Here at Law Liberty, were honored to feature some of the most interesting and engaging voices on topics ranging from constitutional law to film and television. As the year comes to a close, we look back on some of our favorite and most popular essays, reviews, and forums as we raise a glass to freedom and responsibility in 2025.

　　Law and Constitutionalism Constitutional Government After Chevron by Adam White

　　How might the judicial, executive, and legislative landscape change in a post-Chevron world? (A forum lead essay written just before the Loper Bright decision also featuring contributions from Christopher Walker, Michael S. Greve, and John O. McGinnis.)

　　Constitutional Imagination in the Long Founding by Aaron N. Coleman

　　Alison LaCroix’s new book reveals the vibrant debates over federalism and the Constitution in the years before the Civil War.

　　A Scholar-Justice by John O. McGinnis

　　Contrary to accusations that Amy Coney Barrett is drifting left, she is doing the hard work of building up the originalist legal culture.

　　Political Theory and Public Philosophy Toward a Politics of Truthby Aaron Zubia

　　The politics of truth affirms the order of human nature and our civilizational heritage.

　　Do We Need a Politics of Truth? by Phillip A. Wallach

　　Politics is its own sort of endeavor in free societies, quite distinct from either utility maximization or truth-seeking. A response to Zubia.

　　Why We Need Gardeners by Brian Lee Crowley

　　Gratitude and humility are more important to a conservative outlook than plans and first principles.

　　Politics and Policy Hayek Among the Post-Liberals by Rachel Lu

　　The past two decades on the American right have been an extended exercise in mapping out Hayeks road to serfdom.

　　Lowering the Temperature by John G. Grove

　　It would require far more than just a change in rhetoric. (Written just after the Trump assassination attempt in Butler, PA)

　　The Perils of Pure Populism by Mark Pulliam

　　Despite the Supreme Court’s turn against racial preferences, special interests in California seek to gut the state’s non-discrimination protections.

　　Economics Rebooting Market Liberalism in a Populist Age by Samuel Gregg

　　Advocates of the free market must build their themes into wider messages about the need for political and social renewal.

　　Still Trudging Towards Serfdom by Richard M. Reinsch II

　　Eighty years after its initial publication, Hayeks masterpiece still resonates.

　　Understanding the Unseen by Dominic Pino

　　Journalists are often quite good at seeing and describing things, but they are bad at economics, a science of things unseen.

　　Culture A Comedy of Bureaucratic Errors by G. Patrick Lynch

　　Slow Horsesis a spy thriller worthy of Gordon Tullock.

　　A Comedian of Order by Titus Techera

　　Bob Newhart was someone modern Americans especially need: a funnyman with dignity.

　　Plutarchs Gift by Rebecca Burgess

　　By blending Greek and Roman traditions into a single, inspiring work, Plutarch persuaded countless thinkers and statesmen that there was a Graeco-Roman tradition worth preserving.

　　History Are We Focused on the Wrong Rome? by Jonathan Leaf

　　The comparison between the decline of the Roman Empire and the contemporary United States is misplaced.

　　How (Not) to Study Hitler by Max J. Prowant

　　The new documentary’s loud dog whistles equating Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump betray a desperation that goes beyond the limits of acceptable bias.

　　Into the Reactionary Abyss by James M. Patterson

　　Some critiques of contemporary liberalism are worth our consideration, but those rooted in antisemitism, conspiracism, and authoritarianism are not.

　　International Affairs China as It Is by David P. Goldman

　　Americans imagine that inside every Chinese person is an American struggling to get out. But China defies Western categories.

　　Affirm NATOs High Performers by Kennedy Lee

　　Communicating a lack of commitment to NATO will harm allies who have done everything weve asked.

　　The Return of Great Power Competition by Jerry Hendrix

　　A multipolar world order is emerging, and America must prepare to meet it. (The lead essay from our July forum, also featuring essays by William Ruger, Max Prowant, Christopher Parry, and David P. Goldman.

　　Society An Honest Diversity Statement by James Hankins

　　Sometimes diversity is our strength, but more often it isnt.

　　A Liberal and Civic Education for Allby J. Michael Hoffpauir

　　In a liberal democracy, civic education is a salutary part of liberal education. (Part of a forum led by Paul O. Carrese.)

　　Merit, Inclusion, and Raygun at the Olympics by Helen Dale

　　Raygun emerged from a tradition that does not enshrine excellence. That tradition is the academy.