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Politics & Law

Campus, state and national politics, the courts and the Constitution, through a Michigan lens.

Justice Antonin Scalia: A Brief Retrospective

Justice Antonin Scalia served on the Supreme Court for 29 years. He was a champion of textualism, a way of reading law which takes preceding legal documents, particularly the constitution, at their “word-value”, and not their implied…

  1. NatCon Day 3: The Future of the West?

    Members of The Review were lucky enough to be invited to attend the 2025 National Conservatism Conference , or NatCon, in Washington D.C. We heard from speakers within the Trump Administration, prominent intellectuals, and popular…

  2. NatCon Day 1: What is National Conservatism?

    Members of The Review were invited to attend the 2025 National Conservatism Conference , or NatCon. NatCon, once a gathering held on the fringes of the conservative movement, has grown into an important forum for many of the most…

  3. The Review Remembers Charlie Kirk

    Charles James Kirk, only 31, was taken prematurely by an assassin's bullet this September 10th, 2025. He is survived by his wife, Erika, two young children, and the fruits of his grassroots movement. While the killer and their motive…

  4. What Ever Happened to the Michigan Fungus Smugglers?

    While you may have heard about the change in presidents over the summer, I wouldn’t blame you if you missed the craziest, arguably most important story of the season. In early June, news broke that two Chinese researchers at the University…

  5. Dr. Amnon Cavari: Is Democracy Under Attack?

    “How can we survive as a democratic nation?” This is the question posed by Dr. Amnon Cavari during his April 7th seminar at the University of Michigan. Dr Cavari is the head of the Institute for Liberty and Responsibility at the Lauder…

  6. UMich Students: Take REEES 405

    It was the French philosopher Voltaire who said, “History is the study of all the world’s crime.” To not understand the crimes of history will doom us to repeat them. Taking REEES 405.001, which focuses on the history of genocide in…