David M. Smolin

The anti-abortion movement has been struggling since 1992, when the Supreme Court reaffirmed Roe v. Wade and the country elected a President who supported abortion rights. These combined events broke the heart of a movement that had seemed on the verge of eliminating the unrestricted . . . . Continue Reading »

In considering the blind spots of other generations or cultures from a safe distance, it becomes clear that there is no atrocity, no horror, no injustice which human beings, under some circumstances, will not defend, or even posit as a positive good. Present an injustice or atrocity in a way that . . . . Continue Reading »

The Problematics of Moral and Legal TheoryBy Richard A. Posner.Belknap/Harvard University Press.  320 pp. $29.95 Richard Posner, well-known as both a federal judge and legal academic, is generally recognized as one of the chief originators of the law and economics movement. His latest, . . . . Continue Reading »

The controversy over the injunction issued in October 1997 by Alabama Federal District Judge Ira M. DeMent restricting religious activity in public schools, as well as the continuing controversy in the state concerning Judge Roy Moore’s courtroom display of the Ten Commandments, can be . . . . Continue Reading »

This month a hundred million Americans will watch a United States Supreme Court Justice once again ask a President-elect to place his hand upon a Christian Bible and swear an oath of allegiance to the Constitution of the United States. The candidate will end his oath with “so help me God,” and . . . . Continue Reading »