Law
A selection of recent articles on this topic
What Economics Is For
Almost 130 years ago, Pope Leo XIII published the encyclical Rerum Novarum. In this text, he defended…
Cardinal Pell, Scapegoat
Earlier today in Australia, a three-judge panel refused to overturn Cardinal George Pell’s conviction on five counts…
The Australian Disgrace
There will be much more to be said in the weeks and months ahead about the rejection…
How Not to Restore American Industry
For every complex problem,” H. L. Mencken said, “there is an answer that is clear, simple and…
Reordering the Public Square
In the ongoing intra-conservative debates, some have argued that it is the role of government to enforce…
Of Vincent Lambert and Ethical Rubicons
Vincent Lambert is dead. The forty-two-year-old Frenchman, who breathed his last yesterday in Reims, didn’t die by…
Unalienable Rights and Foreign Policy
On May 30, a surprise notice in the Federal Register roiled the landscape of international human rights…
The London Ideology
London is perhaps the most open city in the world—open to the millions who come for the…
Business As Communion
During a visit to Brazil in 1991, the Italian Catholic activist Chiara Lubich called for a new…
American Hinterland
Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflictby phil a. neeluniversity of chicago, 192 pages, $20 In…
Interpreting the Bladensburg Cross Case
Last week, the Supreme Court decided the much-awaited Bladensburg Cross case, American Legion v. American Humanist Association. …
Public Faith and the Peace Cross
On Thursday, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case American Legion v. American Humanist…
Accommodating Injustice
In his advice to princes, Niccolò Machiavelli observed, “there are two kinds of fighting: the one with…
Reasonable Doubts About Pell’s Conviction
Catholics and non-Catholics around the world are justly outraged by the crimes and coverups of the Church’s…
Abortion and Eugenics
In the Supreme Court’s May 28 decision in Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, the…
