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Public Schools and the Moral Neutrality Myth
On April 22, Kelly Armstrong, the Republican governor of North Dakota, vetoed a bill passed by the state legislature that would have required public schools (and libraries) to ensure...
Why Christians Should Care About Oak Flat
A small slice of Arizona wilderness is an unlikely battleground in America’s religious freedom struggle. In recent years, high-profile religious liberty cases have often involved such familiar settings as...
The Four Loves of Robert Jenson
When I met the great Lutheran theologian Robert Jenson, I was a young man, just starting out in academic life. He was already an eminent figure in academia. He...
There is No “Middle Way” in Dobbs
Due to a leak in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case challenging Mississippi’s prohibition of elective abortions after 15 weeks’ gestation, we now know that the Supreme...
Roe Will Go
Let me offer a prediction, free of any face-saving hedge: Next year, the Supreme Court will hold that there is no constitutional right to elective abortions. In Dobbs v. Jackson...
Roe Must Go
Lynn Fitch, the attorney general of Mississippi, faces the most consequential litigation decision of the last 50 years: whether to ask the Supreme Court to reverse Roe v. Wade,...
Devout Catholics and Secular Progressives
Imagine that I am running for public office—say, president of the United States—and I claim to be a “committed secular progressive.” You say, “But Professor George, you’re no such...
Free Speech Prevails at Princeton
This is a time of testing for our nation. We were already in the midst of dealing with a pandemic—trying to protect public health while respecting basic constitutional liberties—when...
Father Martin Corrects Cardinal Tobin
In an April 17, 2019, interview on the Today Show, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, the Archbishop of Newark, profoundly and damagingly misrepresented the teaching of the Catholic Church on a...
A Crisis of Infidelity
At the heart of the recent Catholic scandals is infidelity—literally the lack of faith. There are priests, including bishops and even cardinals, who do not believe in God, or...
Unity, Truth, and Catholic Social Thought
Catholic social teaching is Catholic moral teaching; Catholic moral teaching includes Catholic social teaching. It is a mistake—a common one, yet a profound error—to speak and think of “social”...
The Diversity Nominee
In the old days, an unwritten understanding, honored by presidents of both political parties, had it that certain groups—Jews, Catholics, Southerners—got a “seat” on the Supreme Court. For many...
Solzhenitsyn’s Prophecy
Versions of these remarks were delivered this spring at the commencement ceremony for the Mount Academy of the Bruderhof community in Esopus, New York, and at the commencement ceremony...
Send Your Children to Middlebury College
[This is not junk mail. Do not throw away. Important!] MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: Where Error Has No Rights!!! Parents—from Silicon Valley to the Upper West Side! Have you worked hard...
Vetting the Executive Order
Robert P. George: Angela Wu Howard is a leading international human rights lawyer and activist with whom I have worked in defense of religious liberty. I admire her and...