Michael A. Scaperlanda

Brown gave tacit permission to future Courts, including the Roe Court, to untether itself from the Constitution and to expand its role as final arbiter of the good in American life and culture. Continue Reading »

William W. Chip writes: In “The Ethics of Immigration,” a debate in last month’s issue of First Things , Michael Scaperlanda and I exchanged views on the question of religious believers’ response to immigration. Scaperlanda was not convinced by my arguments or supporting data that “the . . . . Continue Reading »

William W. Chip Until very recently, serious conversation about immigration was all but banished from mainstream American discourse. This consensus of silence, imposed by opinion makers who found the topic distasteful or inconvenient, was undone by a number of recent events”including the sudden . . . . Continue Reading »

Frustrated by the national government’s failed efforts to reform our immigration laws, many states and municipalities have begun taking matters into their own hands. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, more than 240 immigration-related bills became law in forty-six . . . . Continue Reading »