The Common Law Is Not a Tool for the Left to Subvert

Its purpose is to reveal and better understand natural law. Full stop.

Fellow Substacker Ken Taylor (The UnUtopian Optimist) last week asked me to respond to his piece “The Last Stand For Justice”—a thoughtful and passionate defense of that great inheritance from our Anglophone forebears: the common law. I am happy to do so and honored he asked.

Ken and I share a reverence for the common law, and a belief in its indispensab…