RARE PHOTOS: Adrian vermeule | Vintage Vibes

Alito's 'Practical Originalism' Doesn't Sound Very Originalist

The conservative justice seems to favor the kind of results-oriented judging that originalists are supposed to oppose.

Reason · Oct 8

The American Revolution Isn't Over

Washington’s troops won the ground war, but today's left and right are waging war on the ideals of the Revolution.

Reason · Jun 29

Amy Coney Barrett Is Right To Reject 'Common Good Constitutionalism'

Limits on government power are a venerable and beneficial feature of our system.

Reason · Oct 9, 2025

Harvard Law School v. Vermeule

Dueling letters from 90+ members of the HLS faculty and Adrian Vermeule

Reason · Mar 30, 2025

New Univ. of Texas Law Class on "Understanding Conservative Legal Thought"

I thought this item from Prof. John Greil at Texas was much worth passing along; he is still developing the syllabus, and comments and suggestions are welcome at john [dot] greil [at] law [dot] utexas [dot] edu: Next fall semester, I'll be teaching a new course at Texas Law—Understanding Conservative…

Reason · Jan 9, 2024

Brian Leiter on Adrian Vermeule

Is Common Good Constitutionalism anything more than politics by other means?

Reason · Oct 6, 2023

Vermeule and Casey Respond to Judge Rao on Textualism's Political Morality

Further debate on textualism, "common good constitutionalism," and the classical legal method.

Reason · Aug 23, 2023

"The 'Common-Good' Manifesto" Is Now Published

reviewing Common Good Constitutionalism.

Reason · Jan 10, 2023

Commentary: Antonin Scalia and the uncertain future of legal conservatism

During her 2010 Senate confirmation hearings, centrist-liberal Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan famously allowed that “we are all originalists.” In a 2015 interview at Harvard Law School honoring her then-colleague Justice Antonin Scalia, Kagan proclaimed that “we are all textualists now.”

Chicago Tribune · Jan 3, 2023

The "Common-Good" Manifesto: Vermeule Responds

And a few points of ours in reply.

Reason · Aug 16, 2022