When Conscience Is the Last Tribunal
Laws may sanction misconduct, but they can never replace conscience. This essay argues that honor, civic virtue and political responsibility remain the true foundations of every enduring republic.
The Republic Montesquieu Could Not Write
In the autumn of 1748, a book with no author’s name left the presses of Geneva. Its creator had spent twenty years writing it and did not dare sign it. The magistrate of Bordeaux, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, already knew what imprudence cost: his Persian Letters (1721) had also been published anonymously, printed […]