First Liberty Live! is continuing our series of special double-header episodes with two exemplary intellectual leaders: former solicitor general of the United States, Paul Clement, and Kristan Hawkins, president and founder of Students for Life.

First Liberty is defending Chabad of the Beaches, a small Jewish congregation in Atlantic Beach, New York, that recently bought a property to build a community center. Local officials are trying to seize the property under eminent domain, even though they already own multiple properties better suited for village projects.

Do you ever turn on your favorite cable news channel and sit for an hour or so before you actually hear about an issue that really matters to you?

By: Kevin D. Williamson – nationalreview.com – July 27, 2022 When is a recession not a recession? When it is bad for Democratic incumbents. From time immemorial, the definition of “recession” in the financial press and the political conversation has been “two or more consecutive quarters of declining real GDP.” The Biden administration, fearing bad news in the near future,...

By: Phillip W. Magness – wsj.com – July 27, 2022 The Biden administration appears to be preparing for a recession—or rather, for news of one. Rather than tackling the underlying economic problems, the White House is playing word games. Economists have long defined a recession as “a period in which real GDP declines for at least two consecutive quarters,” to quote...

The evidence of cognitive dissonance is mounting. The left’s house of cards will inevitably collapse.

Any aging baby boomer (like myself) knows that the anthem of the radicals of the 1960s and 1970s was sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. Let the good times roll.  

A big attaboy to Senator Tom Cotton. He is among the first in Washington to begin sounding the alarms about something most Americans have never heard of. It’s the Environmental, Social, and Governance system, or ESG for short.

One economist instantly took the air out of the administration’s argument about what constitutes a recession.

Well, at least they’re admitting it now. The COVID vaccine doesn’t protect you against infection. That was the golden selling point when the vaccines rolled out, however. Get the shot, and you won’t get sick.