Christopher Wolfe

John Kekes has written a book that will provoke readers. It will stir up their interest, lead them through many interesting questions and arguments, and then, unfortunately, leave them disappointed. Kekes, inspired by a Cartesian-like dissatisfaction with previous philosophy and its impasses, aims . . . . Continue Reading »

The Natural Rights Republic By Michael Zuckert University of Notre Dame Press 304 pp. $34.95 In The Natural Rights Republic , Michael Zuckert takes up a question that has long divided American historians and political philosophers: “Was the American founding inspired by classical republican, . . . . Continue Reading »

I’ve probably been hanging around Hadley Arkes too long. Hadley has a way of coming up with wonderful little pieces of proposed legislation whose main point is less the legislation itself than the principle it establishes or absence of sound principle it exposes. For example, he has proposed that . . . . Continue Reading »

Roe v. Wade is clearly in for substantial pruning—possibly even an outright overruling—in the near future. Thus the ball, so to speak, will be in the pro-life court. As James Davison Hunter’s article in this issue reminds us, Americans do not accept the positions of either the . . . . Continue Reading »