Law

A selection of recent articles on this topic

New York Is Bullying Nuns Who Care for the Dying

Brian A. Graebe

New York governor Kathy Hochul recently made headlines for decriminalizing assisted suicide, claiming as motivation her compassion…

The Deepening Crisis in Conservative Jurisprudence

Hadley Arkes

In Chiles v. Salazar, the conservative justices came again to that fork in the road that they…

Protecting Kids Online Doesn’t Threaten Speech or Parental Rights

Clare Morell

Two misconceptions have been circulating since last week’s landmark ruling in K.G.M. v. Meta et al., which…

Canada’s Offensive Secularism

Simone M. Sepe

On March 25, the Canadian House of Commons voted to repeal the good faith religious opinion defense…

A Win for Christian Counselors and Religious Liberty

Jonathon Van Maren

In a resounding victory for religious liberty on Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8–1 in Chiles…

Päivi Räsänen and the Failure of Hate Speech Laws

Robert Clarke

On March 26, the Supreme Court of Finland handed down its verdict in the case of Päivi…

The Parental Rights Paradox

Katy Faust

Two weeks ago, the U.S. Supreme Court intervened in Mirabelli v. Bonta, restoring a lower-court injunction that…

Epstein’s Revelations

Liel Leibovitz

Far from a mere sordid distraction or an endless supply of tabloid slop, the Epstein files may…

Combating Vice

R. R. Reno

In my lifetime, American society has been transformed by widespread accommodation of vice. Marijuana has been legalized…

A Landmark Lawsuit, But Let’s Not Cheer Too Soon

Mary Kate Zander

Last month, a twenty-two-year-old woman named Fox Varian won a lawsuit against her prior doctors who coaxed…

Where the Dallas Charter Went Wrong

Michael J. Mazza

In Peter Weir’s 1981 film Gallipoli, hundreds of Australian foot soldiers, armed only with bayonets, are sent,…

The Theology of Roe

Matthew Schmitz

A controversial abortion case reaches the Supreme Court, and men in black robes impose their religious views…

The Evangelist in Stanley Prison

George Weigel

In a 1974 address to a group of lay Catholics, Pope Paul VI noted that “Modern man…

Practitioners of Infanticide

Alexander Raikin

A physician declares his dying patient—a seven-pound baby boy—“dangerous as dynamite,” a “menace to society.” A routine…

The Lessons of Woodrow Wilson

R. R. Reno

In his excellent book about our troubled times, Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America’s…