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“Extreme Religious Liberty Rights”

Mark Barrett

While most of the attention on the Supreme Court’s HHS mandate cases has properly centered on whether the Court will interpret the protections of the First Amendment and the...

Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s War on Poverty

Mark Barrett

At the Library of Law and Liberty, Greg Weiner reconsiders Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s criticisms of the War on Poverty, and suggests conservatives who frequently cite his work on the...

A Shepherd of the Jobless

Mark Barrett

While recent economic indicators have been positive, a significant percentage of those seeking work remain unable to find it. Analysts on both the left and the right  have proposed solutions...

Legislating Morality After Prohibition

Mark Barrett

Last week our nation commemorated the eightieth anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition, the most commonly cited lesson of which is: You cannot legislate morality. Though this has become...

Tammany Hall’s Forgotten Successes

Mark Barrett

As New York elects its first officially Democratic mayor in twenty years, Susanah Black at Front Porch Republic  reexamines  the legacy of the much maligned Tammany Hall: When it...

Can a Catholic Politics Still Speak to the Working Class?

Mark Barrett

“Almost heaven, West Virginia” sang John Denver. However one would get a rather different impression of the state reading  Karen Tumulty’s piece  in the Washington Post on West Virginia’s...

Progressives Get Behind Gambling

Mark Barrett

When New Yorkers go to the polls this November they will be asked to approve a constitutional amendment to legalize casino gambling in the state. The state’s liberal governor,...

What Would Have Saved Savita

Mark Barrett

  A report published this week by the Irish Health Information and Quality Authority into the tragic death of Savita Halappanavar, the woman who died while seventeen weeks pregnant...