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Obergefell and the Right to Other People’s Children

Jeff Shafer

We’re mournfully familiar with the constitutional right of mothers to be rid of their own prenatal children. Now coming into view is an adult right to possess and have...

Supreme Incoherence: Transgender Ideology and the End of Law

Jeff Shafer

In The Trouble with Principle, Stanley Fish recites an observation that John Milton included in his Areopagitica: “No law, Milton points out, can permit activity that constitutes an assault...