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This essay is a response to “Anchors Aweigh” (December 2023) by Marc O. DeGirolami.  Some of my friends were vexed on my behalf on account of Marc DeGirolami’s recent...

The Wall Street Journal recently posted an article about a growing concern that there are not enough donations of sperm to meet rising demand. It was reported that in...

3o3 Creative LLC v. Elenis has all the marks of a Masterpiece Cakeshop redux: From the same state of Colorado, with the same Civil Rights Commission, applying the same statute,...

The decision today in the Dobbs case, long awaited from the Court, can be appreciated—and savored—as a resounding first step. To rephrase Churchill’s line, we might say that we...

It is very much in the air now, with a deep hope on one side and a grim resignation on the other, that the holding in Roe v. Wade...

The oral argument yesterday morning in the Dobbs case on abortion was not exactly a moment to celebrate for either side. One side, we might say, was “morally challenged”...

Do not believe it.” Those were the now-famous words of Justice Scalia in 2003, when the Supreme Court struck down the laws on sodomy in Texas, and Justice Anthony...

When the helicopters lifted off the roof of the American Embassy in Saigon, Gerry Ford commandeered time on television to tell the country, “This is no time for recriminations.”...

Conservatives were bracing for the defection of Justice Gorsuch on the cases dealing with the “transgendered” and “sexual orientation.” But even the anticipation of the jolt did not diminish...

Ever since Brit Hume receded from his role in anchoring the Fox evening news, there has been no anchorman more finely suited to this vocation than his apt successor,...

We have just come through a year with the Supreme Court in which the defenders of religious freedom racked up a string of famous victories. Famous, at least, to...

Pro-lifers are celebrating the decision announced by the Supreme Court on Tuesday in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra. The State of California had required that...

Jack Phillips is the now-famous owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado, the baker who in 2012 suddenly found himself stamped and vilified as a lawbreaker by the Colorado...

For some conservatives, bracing themselves on the night of the election, the evening offered nothing less than a miracle unfolding. But that sense of things was even more pronounced...

Just a month ago, in a harbinger of things to come, the conservative side lost in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and almost no one seemed to notice....