Max Prowant

Ph.D. Government from UTexas - Austin. Director, Academics @hamiltonsoc Associate editor at Law&Liberty. Husband, father. Owner of doodle 🐶🇺🇸

[Jeffery Tyler Syck @tylersyck]

I have spent much of my career delivering remarks, sermons, and short lectures that disappear after the moment passes. Today I am launching a small Substack — Rhetoric and Roots — as a home for these pieces.

Check it out below and subscribe if you are interested!

[Jeffery Tyler Syck @tylersyck]

In my latest for @JoinPersuasion, I argue that liberalism’s most important idea is also its oldest: every person possesses an innate dignity. If liberalism is to be renewed, it must place that conviction—not material comfort—at the heart of a free society.
https://t.co/iWwRVJKu16

[Law & Liberty @LawLiberty]

We’re delighted to announce that Elizabeth Corey is now a Senior Writer at Law & Liberty.

[Law & Liberty @LawLiberty]

We’re pleased to announce that Yuval Levin is now a Senior Writer at Law & Liberty. We look forward to sharing his thoughtful commentary and insights with our readers.

[Jeffery Tyler Syck @tylersyck]

Pretty excited to get my author copy of @PoliAnimalPress’ “A Republic of Virtue: The Political Essays of John Quincy Adams.”

If you want to learn more about one of America’s most underrated political theorists check it out when it’s released September 15th!

[Jeffery Tyler Syck @tylersyck]

Cicero wasn't a marble bust — he was a vain, brilliant schemer who slowly became something better by living. My newest piece for @LawLiberty on @Robert___Harris's Cicero trilogy, ambition, and the messy path to virtue:
https://t.co/SXdLnbo04s

[Jeffery Tyler Syck @tylersyck]

Thrilled to join the masthead of @JoinPersuasion as a contributing writer.

At a moment when liberal democracy is under daily assault, Persuasion offers some of the most thoughtful work on how the liberal tradition of Jefferson and Locke can evolve and endure. Give us a read.

[Aaron MacLean @AaronBMacLean]

This is live. Bottom line: in certain respects, the MOU is *worse* than the JCPOA.
https://t.co/pruN2pqPNV

[Jeffery Tyler Syck @tylersyck]

Some exciting news! The book I have had the pleasure of editing and authoring over the last several years will be available for purchase on September 15th.

Check out the link below for more info:
https://t.co/RgeWc2Mp8Z

[Timothy Sandefur @TimothySandefur]

Law & Liberty’s @ishapiro has a fine, thorough review of my new book: https://t.co/B5vAGPGU4i

[Connor Murnane @ConnorMurnane]

Indiana University trustees vote Friday on adopting the Chicago Principles on Freedom of Expression.

A good move for the worst ranked public university in FIRE’s College Free Speech Rankings. If adopted, the test is whether IU follows these principles when push comes to shove.

[Max Prowant @MaxProwant]

@rclu @LawLiberty Thanks, Rachel!

[Rachel Lu @rclu]

My friend and @LawLiberty colleague @MaxProwant on why the Iranian government hasn't fallen and, unfortunately, may not anytime soon. I found this a helpful explainer.

https://t.co/cu2JXjT75G

[Law & Liberty @LawLiberty]

In the wake of renewed unrest in Iran, Max J. Prowant (@MaxProwant) explores a central insight of political science: revolutions succeed only when ruling elites divide. The Islamic Republic’s durability, he suggests, lies in its unusual degree of elite cohesion and institutional control. https://t.co/oSnXusuYCZ

[Niall Ferguson @nfergus]

"Isn’t it amazing that the ideologies that we are encountering on the peripheral extremes of politics are socialism and anti-Semitism? ... It feels like we can’t seem to come up with new ideas. We’re stuck in the twentieth century." A recent interview for @LawLiberty

[Law & Liberty @LawLiberty]

“Good books slow the season down.” Discover the Law & Liberty holiday reading list. https://t.co/GNLt5CtBbb

[Spencer A. Klavan @SpencerKlavan]

“Though there were not enough Jewish jokes to pass the entirety of the time in that car, there were plenty. Had I known he was funny before this? I don’t remember, to tell you the truth. I knew he was loving, because he was always loving. I remember him kissing me on the top of my head as I sat on his lap around the age of six and him saying, ruefully, that there would come a time I wouldn’t sit in his lap and I wouldn’t let him kiss me, and I said that would never happen, but of course it did. And of course, as he lay dying, it was I who held his hand and kissed his head because who could ever have deserved it more? This person the obituaries tell you was pugnacious and sardonic and had a boxer’s taste for pugilism was at heart a man of profound kindness and an almost endless generosity of spirit.”

Read the whole thing.

https://t.co/94PGWi0a6y

[Max Prowant @MaxProwant]

@rclu @LawLiberty Thanks Rachel!

[Max Prowant @MaxProwant]

Great piece from my colleague ⁦@rclu⁩ on today’s political violence. Today’s assassins less resemble members of IRA or Weather Underground; “they are alienated misfits, and everyone knows it.” Worth your time. https://t.co/AmFZTRL19h