Carson Holloway is department chair and professor of political science at the University of Nebraska, Omaha and a Washington fellow in the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life. He is the author of Hamilton versus Jefferson in the Washington Administration: Completing the Founding or Betraying the Founding? (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He is coeditor, with Bradford P. Wilson, of The Political Writings of Alexander Hamilton (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and The Political Writings of George Washington (Cambridge University Press, 2023). He has held visiting fellowships in Princeton University’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and at the Heritage Foundation. His scholarly articles have appeared in The Review of Politics, Interpretation, and Perspectives on Political Science, and he has written public commentary for The New Criterion, First Things, National Affairs, Public Discourse, National Review, Law and Liberty, The Federalist, The American Spectator, and The American Conservative.

No Liberty to Libel offers the most thorough originalist argument against New York Times v. Sullivan available today. Defenders of the Sullivan Court’s “actual malice” doctrine may disagree with Holloway’s conclusions, but they cannot afford to ignore his arguments. Holloway reminds us of the American Founders’ crucial distinction between liberty and license, without which we cannot properly understand or interpret the freedom of the press or any of our other fundamental freedoms.—Vincent Phillip Muñoz, Tocqueville Professor of Political Science and Concurrent Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame

Carson Holloway is department chair and professor of political science at the University of Nebraska, Omaha and a Washington fellow in the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life. He is the author of Hamilton versus Jefferson in the Washington Administration: Completing the Founding or Betraying the Founding? (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He is coeditor, with Bradford P. Wilson, of The Political Writings of Alexander Hamilton (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and The Political Writings of George Washington (Cambridge University Press, 2023). He has held visiting fellowships in Princeton University’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and at the Heritage Foundation. His scholarly articles have appeared in The Review of Politics, Interpretation, and Perspectives on Political Science, and he has written public commentary for The New Criterion, First Things, National Affairs, Public Discourse, National Review, Law and Liberty, The Federalist, The American Spectator, and The American Conservative.

No Liberty to Libel offers the most thorough originalist argument against New York Times v. Sullivan available today. Defenders of the Sullivan Court’s “actual malice” doctrine may disagree with Holloway’s conclusions, but they cannot afford to ignore his arguments. Holloway reminds us of the American Founders’ crucial distinction between liberty and license, without which we cannot properly understand or interpret the freedom of the press or any of our other fundamental freedoms.—Vincent Phillip Muñoz, Tocqueville Professor of Political Science and Concurrent Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame

Carson Holloway is department chair and professor of political science at the University of Nebraska, Omaha and a Washington fellow in the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life. He is the author of Hamilton versus Jefferson in the Washington Administration: Completing the Founding or Betraying the Founding? (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He is coeditor, with Bradford P. Wilson, of The Political Writings of Alexander Hamilton (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and The Political Writings of George Washington (Cambridge University Press, 2023). He has held visiting fellowships in Princeton University’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and at the Heritage Foundation. His scholarly articles have appeared in The Review of Politics, Interpretation, and Perspectives on Political Science, and he has written public commentary for The New Criterion, First Things, National Affairs, Public Discourse, National Review, Law and Liberty, The Federalist, The American Spectator, and The American Conservative.

No Liberty to Libel offers the most thorough originalist argument against New York Times v. Sullivan available today. Defenders of the Sullivan Court’s “actual malice” doctrine may disagree with Holloway’s conclusions, but they cannot afford to ignore his arguments. Holloway reminds us of the American Founders’ crucial distinction between liberty and license, without which we cannot properly understand or interpret the freedom of the press or any of our other fundamental freedoms.—Vincent Phillip Muñoz, Tocqueville Professor of Political Science and Concurrent Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame