Andrew P. Napolitano

What is the U.S. doing in Ukraine?

Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that must first be met before war is waged?

June 12, 2024

War and indifference: What is Biden’s goal in Ukraine?

Which is more destructive to personal liberty: a government that engages in secret wars, or a public and news media that are indifferent to it? In the current American toxic stew, we have both.

June 5, 2024

American Caesar and constitutional indifference

A recent column in The Economist asking if the United States is dictator-proof got me thinking about whether our constitutional guarantees are secure.

May 29, 2024

The perils of an outsized federal government

Today, the government claims it can right any wrong, tax any event, intrude upon any relationship, or even suppress any speech that it chooses.

May 22, 2024

Perils of the Antisemitism Awareness Act

Can an idea be dangerous? Can a dangerous idea be expressed? Can the government punish ideas it deems to be dangerous?

May 15, 2024

Is your car spying on you?

Democratic Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Edward Markey of Massachusetts revealed that automobiles sold in the U.S. with a GPS or emergency call system accumulate the vehicle's travel data on computer chips.

May 8, 2024

Killing the Constitution: Revised FISA is worse for freedom than its predecessor

Thanks to legislation last weekend, the United States in 2024 will soon resemble East Germany in the late 1980s, where nearly everyone was a spy and no one could talk about it.

April 24, 2024

The right to assemble: Holding an organizer liable for another’s violent acts

Last week, the Supreme Court effectively abolished the right to assembly in three Southern states.

April 17, 2024

CIA wants more power to spy on Americans

Americans need to be aware of the unbridled propensity of federal intelligence agencies to spy on all of us without search warrants as required by the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.

April 10, 2024

Government attacks freedom of speech

Holy Week was not a good week for personal liberty, as governments across the United States engaged in direct and subtle attacks on free speech.

April 3, 2024

Taking Easter seriously: Resurrection of Jesus is the linchpin of human existence

When the government takes away freedom -- whether by fiat or legislation -- it steals a gift we received from God, it violates the natural law and the Constitution, and it prevents us from seeking the truth.

March 27, 2024

Can Congress ban TikTok?

Congress now wants to give the president of the United States the lawful power to suppress websites he thinks are spying on their users or permitting foreign governments to influence what Americans see on the sites.

March 20, 2024

My dinner with Pope Francis: Examining the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas

I spent last week living and studying at the Vatican as a guest lecturer at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, or PASS.

March 13, 2024

Governments do not take rights seriously

The world is filled with self-evident truths -- truisms -- that philosophers, lawyers and judges know need not be proven.

March 6, 2024

Torturers undermine the values upon which the Constitution is based

As the pretrial hearings in the case of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and others charged with masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks proceed, the government continues to stumble with its own witnesses.

February 28, 2024

New York state can’t say how it was harmed by Trump’s commercial loans

Last week, a New York court ordered the Trump Organization and its principals to forfeit nearly $400 million to the state government. It was government theft at its worst.

February 21, 2024

America is at war with itself and abroad

When the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche proclaimed that God was dead, he didn't mean it literally, as that would have been impossible.

February 14, 2024

Government regulation of free speech in a Big Tech world

Can the government prevent Big Tech from censoring political and cultural voices on their platforms?

February 7, 2024

Feds are buying our text messages and email

en. Ron Wyden, Oregon Democrat, revealed that the National Security Agency has been buying huge caches of Americans' text messages and email from Big Tech.

January 31, 2024

Government by experts: The monstrosity called the Chevron doctrine

I have often thought that after Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson was our worst president. By worst, I mean least faithful to the Constitution and most destructive of personal liberty.

January 24, 2024